Download or read book The Religious Instruction of Our Colored Population written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Tombeckbee and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States written by Charles Colcock Jones and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Religious Instruction of the Colored Population written by John Bailey Adger and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States written by Charles Colcock JONES (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States written by Charles Colcock Jones and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Charles Colcock Jones's 'The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States', the author explores the importance of religious education for African Americans during the antebellum period. Jones delves into the impact of Christianity on the enslaved population, discussing how religious teachings were used to control and manipulate them. Written in a persuasive and informative style, the book sheds light on the complex relationship between religion, race, and power in American society. Jones also includes firsthand accounts and biblical references to support his arguments, making this work a valuable contribution to the study of African American history and religious practices in the United States. In addition, Jones's detailed analysis of the cultural and social factors influencing the religious education of African Americans provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complexities of race relations in early America. I highly recommend this book to those interested in the intersection of religion, race, and power dynamics in American history.

Download or read book Skepticism and American Faith written by Christopher Grasso and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge and education in an "enlightened" society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic transformation, territorial expansion, and social change. Ultimately, as Christopher Grasso argues in this definitive work, it molded the making and eventual unmaking of American nationalism. Religious skepticism has been rendered nearly invisible in American religious history, which often stresses the evangelicalism of the era or the "secularization" said to be happening behind people's backs, or assumes that skepticism was for intellectuals and ordinary people who stayed away from church were merely indifferent. Certainly the efforts of vocal "infidels" or "freethinkers" were dwarfed by the legions conducting religious revivals, creating missions and moral reform societies, distributing Bibles and Christian tracts, and building churches across the land. Even if few Americans publicly challenged Christian truth claims, many more quietly doubted, and religious skepticism touched--and in some cases transformed--many individual lives. Commentators considered religious doubt to be a persistent problem, because they believed that skeptical challenges to the grounds of faith--the Bible, the church, and personal experience--threatened the foundations of American society. Skepticism and American Faith examines the ways that Americans--ministers, merchants, and mystics; physicians, schoolteachers, and feminists; self-help writers, slaveholders, shoemakers, and soldiers--wrestled with faith and doubt as they lived their daily lives and tried to make sense of their world.

Download or read book The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development written by Booker T. Washington and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four lectures given as part of an endowed Lectureship on Christian Sociology at Philadelphia Divinity School. Washington's two lectures concern the economic development of African Americans both during and after slavery. He argues that slavery enabled the freedman to become a success, and that economic and industrial development improves both the moral and the religious life of African Americans. Du Bois argues that slavery hindered the South in its industrial development, leaving an agriculture-based economy out of step with the world around it. His second lecture argues that Southern white religion has been broadly unjust to slaves and former slaves, and how in so doing it has betrayed its own hypocrisy.

Download or read book Ninth Annual Report of the Association for the Religious Instruction of the Negroes in Liberty County written by Association for the Religious Instruction of the Negroes in Liberty County, Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slavery in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Testimony and Practice of the Presbyterian Church in Reference to American Slavery written by John Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Testimony and Practice of the Presbyterian Church in Reference to American Slavery with an Appendix Containing the Position of the General Assembly New School Free Presbyterian and other Churches written by John ROBINSON (Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Ashlend, Ohio.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Negro written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Southern Presbyterian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Littell s Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Baptist Heritage written by H. Leon McBeth and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987-01-29 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baptist Heritage: Four Century of Baptist Witness H. Leon McBeth's 'The Baptist heritage' is a definitive, fresh interpretation of Baptist history. Based on primary source research, the book combines the best features of chronological and topical history to bring alive the story of Baptists around the world.

Download or read book Gospel of Disunion written by Mitchell Snay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.