CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xi
4. PART I. THE CHURCH AND SLAVERY
5. I. COMPROMISE AND CONSCIENCE: The Church and Slavery 1780–1816 3
6. II. COMPROMISE CONFIRMED: The Sectional Adjustment to Slavery 1808–1830 30
7. III. THE SOUTHERN COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: The Mission to the Slaves 1824–1844 62
8. IV. THE GENTEEL COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: Methodists and Colonization 1824-1844 88
9. PART II. THE CHURCH AND ABOLITION
10. V. THE RADICAL ALTERNATIVE TO COMPROMISE: The Rise of Methodist Abolitionism 1832–1836 113
11. VI. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: The Abolitionists and the North 1836–1839 148
12. VII. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: North and South 1836–1840 177
13. VIII. REALIGNMENT OF ALTERNATIVES: The Conservatives Discover Antislavery without Abolitionism 1840–1844 212
14. IX. CHOICE AND DISJUNCTION: The General Conference of 1844 246
15. EPILOGUE: Of Slavery and Morality 283
16. APPENDIX 291
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 305
18. INDEX 325