Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism

by Ben Wright and Ben Wright

Book Overview

Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status anxieties,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807173894
• ISBN13: 9780807173893
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"