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• Slavery and the church -- United States

• Church and slavery
• Christian views on slavery

• An Address to Christians of All Denominations on the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership (Philadelphia: S. C. Atkinson, 1831), by Evan Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bible Gives No Sanction to Slavery (page images at MOA)
• Christianity Versus Treason and Slavery: Religion Rebuking Sedition (Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1864)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Come-Outerism: The Duty of Secession From a Corrupt Church (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberty or Slavery: The Great National Question, by R. B. Thurston, A. C. Baldwin, and Timothy Williston (page images at MOA)
• Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 (Huddersfield, UK: Printed by H. Fielding, 1864), by J. D. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated (London: Thomas Ward and Co., 1840), by Juan Francisco Manzano, trans. by Richard Robert Madden (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Catholicism and Slavery (c1999), by Fred Stopsky (HTML at archive.org)
• Slavery and Catholicism (Durham, NC: North State Publishers, c1957), by Richard Roscoe Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catholics and the Civil War: Essays (Milwaukee, 1945), by Benjamin J. Blied, contrib. by Peter Leo Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery, by Charles K. Whipple (page images at MOA)

• A Catechism, To Be Taught Orally To Those Who Cannot Read: Designed Especially for the Instruction of the Slaves in the Prot. Episcopal Church (Raleigh: Office of "The Church Intelligencer", 1862), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sermon Delivered Before the Annual Council of the Diocese of North Carolina, Upon the Festival of the Ascension, May 14, 1863, by Alfred A. Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Minister's Wooing (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Minister's Wooing (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)

• Catechism for the Use of the Methodist Missions, First Part (Charleston: Published by John Early, 1853), by William Capers (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Constitutional Powers of the General Conference, With a Special Application to the Subject of Slaveholding, by William L. Harris (page images at MOA)
• Essay on Slavery, by Thomas J. Taylor (page images at MOA)
• The Impending Crisis of 1860: or, The Present Connection of the Methodist Episcopal Church With Slavery, and Our Duty in Regard to it (New York: Mason Bros., 1858), by Hiram Mattison
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Impending Crisis of 1860: or, The Present Connection of the Methodist Episcopal Church With Slavery, and Our Duty in Regard to it (New York: Mason Bros., 1859), by Hiram Mattison
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc.; With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery (second edition; Philadelphia: The author, 1857), by John Dixon Long, contrib. by John Wesley and Richard Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Methodist Church Property Case: Report of the Suit of Henry B. Bascom, and Others, vs. George Lane, and Others, Heard Before the Hon. Judges Nelson and Betts, in the Circuit Court, United States, for the Southern District of New-York, May 17-29, 1851 (New York: Lane and Scott, 1851), ed. by Richard Sutton, contrib. by H. B. Bascom and George Lane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Methodist Church Property Case: Report of the Suit of Henry B. Bascom, and Others, vs. George Lane, and Others, Heard Before the Hon. Judges Nelson and Betts, in the Circuit Court, United States, for the Southern District of New-York, May 17-29, 1851 (Richmond and Louisville: Pub. by J. Early for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1851), ed. by Richard Sutton, contrib. by H. B. Bascom and George Lane
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Attitude of the Presbyterian Church in the United States Towards American Slavery (M.A. thesis, University of Illinois, 1917), by Elmo Paul Hohman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Church and Slavery, by Albert Barnes (page images at MOA)
• Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible: A Discourse (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1861), by Joseph Ruggles Wilson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery Ordained of God, by F. A. Ross (Gutenberg text)
• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• John and Mary, or, The Fugitive Slaves: A Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing and Pub. Co., 1873), by Ellwood Griest (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage: Apostates (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1737), by Benjamin Lay (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The American Churches, The Bulwarks of American Slavery, by James Gillespie Birney (HTML with commentary at tripod.com)
• The Brotherhood of Thieves: or, A True Picture of the American Church and Clergy: A Letter to Nathaniel Barney, of Nantucket (originally published 1843; reprinted Concord, NH: P. Pillsbury, 1884), by Stephen S. Foster
  • HTML with commentary at tripod.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Church and Slavery, by Albert Barnes (page images at MOA)
• The Constitutional Powers of the General Conference, With a Special Application to the Subject of Slaveholding, by William L. Harris (page images at MOA)
• The Impending Crisis of 1860: or, The Present Connection of the Methodist Episcopal Church With Slavery, and Our Duty in Regard to it (New York: Mason Bros., 1858), by Hiram Mattison
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Impending Crisis of 1860: or, The Present Connection of the Methodist Episcopal Church With Slavery, and Our Duty in Regard to it (New York: Mason Bros., 1859), by Hiram Mattison
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Attitude of the Presbyterian Church in the United States Towards American Slavery (M.A. thesis, University of Illinois, 1917), by Elmo Paul Hohman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Church and the Rebellion: A Consideration of the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States, and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation Thereto (New York: Derby and Miller, 1864), by R. L. Stanton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery, by Charles K. Whipple (page images at MOA)
• A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States, With its Objects and Purposes (Georgia: Printed for the author, 1856), by Howell Cobb
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Fugitive Blacksmith: or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States (second edition; London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by James W. C. Pennington
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • reprint transcription: Gutenberg text
• Slavery Ordained of God, by F. A. Ross (Gutenberg text)

• All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage: Apostates (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1737), by Benjamin Lay (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903 (Atlanta University Publications #8; Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903), ed. by W. E. B. Du Bois
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC

• The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• What People Ask About the Church (first edition, c1992), by Dale Robbins (HTML with commentary at victorious.org)
• The Search for the True Church (c1991), by Joe Crews (HTML at amazingfacts.org)
• When All Else Fails... Read the Directions (c1975), by Bob Smith (HTML at pbc.org (select right-side icons to read chapters))
• The Non-Orthodox: The Orthodox Teaching On Christians Outside The Church (online edition, c2004), by Patrick Barnes (PDF at orthodoxinfo.com)
• Body Life (1995 edition), by Ray C. Stedman and James D. Denney (HTML and PDF files at raystedman.org)
• The Church: An Organic Picture of Its Life and Mission, by Robert Brow (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Church Questions: Historical and Moral Reviews (London: J. Snow; Manchester, UK: Thomson and Baxter, ca. 1862), by Joseph Parker (multiple formats at Google)
• Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), Solemnly Promulgated by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, on November 21, 1964, by Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) (HTML at the Vatican)
• The Glorious Church, by Watchman Nee (frame-dependent HTML at ministrybooks.org)
• On the Church of Christ: The Person of the Church and Her Personnel, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)
• The Outward Bound: Caravaning as the Style of the Church, by Vernard Eller (HTML at hccentral.com)
• The State of the Church: A Plea for More Prayer (New York et al.: Fleming Revell Co., ca. 1911), by Andrew Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What the Church Means to Me: A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider (Boston et al.: The Pilgrim Press, c1911), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Christian Ecclesia: A Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and One Sermon, by Fenton John Anthony Hort (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds (New York: J. Wiley, 1851), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.