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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838334303321

Autore

Kellison Kimberly

Titolo

Forging a Christian Order : South Carolina Baptists, Race, and Slavery, 1696-1860

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Tennessee Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-62190-760-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

America's Baptists Series

Disciplina

270.08625

Soggetti

Slavery and the church - Baptists

Slavery and the church - South Carolina

Slavery - United States - Justification

Baptists - South Carolina - History

History

Electronic books.

United States

South Carolina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Keith Harper -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Framing a Christian Order -- Two. Growth, 1760-1790: A Threat to Order -- Three. National Denominationalism, 1790-1830 -- Four. Defining Sectionalism, 1790-1830 -- Five. Baptist Clashes, 1830-1845 -- Six. Sectionalism Ordained -- Conclusion. The Reframing of Christian Order -- Appendices. South Carolina Baptist Church and Membership Statistics -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This is a comprehensive examination of the Baptist movement in South Carolina from its founding to the eve of the Civil War. The author argues that from the beginning, the Baptist impulse and organization were driven by elites, who closely valued hierarchy and from the earliest times mounted a Christian defense of slavery. While the ideology of Baptists tended to emanate from the lowcountry, and there was some resistance to its details in the upcountry, Baptists ministers



throughout the state fashioned a Christianized version of slavery that legitimized the institution"--