La jaquette indique: " 'Houses Divided' provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian…
This book provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. The author examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slaveholdi…
Focusing on the slaveholding border state of Missouri, Houses Divided shows that congregational and local denominational schisms, which arose initially over the moral question of African-American bondage, played a central role in sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction.