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Free Church of Scotland fast |
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Scotland fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRx4M4xHbtFTRj7p6BmM |
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United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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History fast |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9780227901588 |
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0227901584 |
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0227173899 |
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9780227173893 |
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9780227173893 |
| Phys Descr |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Free Church of Scotland -- Political activity -- History.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
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Antislavery movements -- Scotland -- History.
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| Contents |
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. |
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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' |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
Iain Whyte investigates the history of slavery and its abolition with a particular assessment of Scotland's role in emancipation. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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