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Send back the money : the Free Church of Scotland and American slavery /
Iain Whyte investigates the history of slavery and its abolition with a particular assessment of Scotland's role in emancipation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
James Clarke & Co Ltd,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction A Church with Freedom but no Money; Cash and Credibility
- The Transatlantic delegation; Chapter 1 A Delegation Warmly Received; Fertile Ground; Princeton and far beyond; Seeing slavery and hearing from the Presbyterians; The Wages of Iniquity?; Chapter 2 The Elephant in the Room; Tidings from America; Adulation and Omission; The Glasgow Emancipation Society stirs the potand Humble Overtures break the silence; Dr Candlish takes the reins; The Committee reports that everyone was against slavery.
- Chapter 3 Chalmers and Smyth
- Tensions across the Atlantic. A blast from the deep South; The cautious abolitionist; Chalmers under pressure; A careful compromise in The Witness; Chapter 4 Keeping a Lid on the Volcano; The Glasgow Abolitionists enter the fray again; Sparks fly and die at the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh; The 1845 General Assembly
- discussion stifled for the sake of 'unity'; Letters to and from America; Chapter 5 'Douglass has blawn sic a flame'; Self-liberated and strong; Send Back the Money; Temperance and Opposition; In full cry; Storming the City Crags with 'Quakeresses'
- The flame burnsChapter 6 War, Drink, the Sabbath and the 1846 Assembly; A loose cannon among the abolitionists; The Hawick Alcoholics; The 1846 Assembly: A debate about no debate; A Veteran Abolitionist Enters the Fray; Chapter 7 Ballads and Broadsheets; The Cursed Bawbees; Making Money on Both Sides; The Stain of Slaveholders' Money; The end result; Chapter 8 The Irish take a Firmer Stand; Douglass in Ireland; The native son returns; Libel and Defamation; Assemblies and letters to America; Chapter 9 Evangelicals and Abolitionists
- Houses Divided; The Evangelical Alliance.
- Douglass Returns to Scotland but Emancipationists DivideThe Free Church Anti-Slavery Society
- a late entry on the scene; Chapter 10 The Last Battles and Hunting 'the brave Macbeth'; The 1847 General Assembly; Strictures, Pamphlets, and another Assembly; The pamphlets of James Macbeth; Serious charges against the minister of Lauriston; Chapter 11 A Passing Storm in a Teacupor the Shape of Things to Come?; Unity and Division; The ethical issues
- twentieth-century parallels; Scottish public awareness and the next rounds; Notes; Introduction: A Church with Freedom but no Money.
- Chapter 1: A Delegation Warmly ReceivedChapter 2: The Elephant in the Room; Chapter 3: Chalmers and Smyth
- Tensions across the Atlantic; Chapter 4: Keeping a Lid on the Volcano; Chapter 5: 'Douglass has blawn sic a flame'; Chapter 6: War, Drink, the Sabbath, and the 1846 Assembly; Chapter 7: Ballads and Broadsheets; Chapter 8: The Irish Take a Firmer Stand; Chapter 9: Evangelicals and Abolitionists
- Houses Divided; Chapter 10: The Last Battles and Hunting 'the Brave Macbeth'; Chapter 11:A Passing Storm in a Teacup or the Shape of Things to Come?; Bibliography.