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Author:   William Harrison Taylor ,  Peter C. Messer ,  Sir Tom Devine ,  Richard J. Finlay, Richard J. Finlay
Publisher:   Lehigh University Press
Imprint:   Lehigh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9781611462012

ISBN 10:   1611462010
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: From James Montgomery to James Macbeth: The Development of Scottish Antislavery Theology and Action 1756-1848 Iain Whyte Chapter 2: Between Enlightenment and Evangelicalism: Presbyterian Diversity and American Slavery, 1700-1800 Gideon Mailer Chapter 3: Made of One Flesh? : Revisiting the 1787 Slavery Policy of the Synod of New York and Philadelphia William Harrison Taylor Chapter 4: A Blessing or a Curse, Depending on How It Is Used : David Ramsay's Presbyterian Antislavery Journey Peter C. Messer Chapter 5: Transatlantic Family Journeys: From Antislavery Ethos to Pro-Slavery Ethic Nini Rodgers Chapter 6: The Reformed Presbyterian Church and Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century America William J. Roulston Chapter 7: Commerce and Christianity: Scottish Presbyterians, Slavery, and Islam in East Central Africa, 1870-1900 Richard Finlay Chapter 8: Antislavery Work by the American Women of the Presbyterian Congo Mission Kimberly Hill Chapter 9: The Slave Trade in the New Hebrides : Covenanting Ideology, the New Hebrides Mission, and the Campaign against the Pacific Island Labor Traffic Valerie Wallace Epilogue: Presbyterian Orthodoxies and Slavery Joseph S. Moore About the Authors

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William Harrison Taylor is associate professor of history at Alabama State University. Peter C. Messer is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University.

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