Institutional impact: The Presbyterian Church and anti-slavery in Antebellum Kentucky

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

14 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/30/2009

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction
Whites taking a stances against the spread of and the contemporary existence of African slavery
The Presbyterian Church and the question of who was to blame for this social evil
Historian William M. Boyd: The prevalence of an early anti-slavery sentiment in kentucky
The greatest issue facing the regional congregation of the Upper South
A society of homogeneity
1. Kentucky and the Federal Union
2. The contemporary situation of the Presbyterian Church
3. The importance of religious institutional opposition to the practice in Kentucky
4. Antislavery sentiment in Kentucky: Prevalent even in 1792
5. The geographic location of Kentucky: A secondary significance
The 1797 proposal 'earnestly recommending' that a moral example be set by emancipating the states' slave population
1. Heated division between pro and anti- slavery Presbyterian forces
2. A similar dilemma that accompanied many Americans of the North
3. David Rice: The leader of the Presbyterians in Kentucky
The Presbyterian Church: Abolitionism's most fervent sponsor
The repetition of events and partial resolutions
Including the African population as civil, societal participants
African Americans in Kentucky: Benefiting from the social anonymity of the Church
Advocating immediate emancipation of slavery and victims of social ostracism: 1830's
The Church's public stance
Cocnlusion
Works cited

Abstract

Coupled with the fervor of Evangelical Revivalism, anti slavery movements in the Southern states were deeply influenced by religious institutions during the early to mid nineteenth century. Social networks assumed issues of social concern. In Faith, Presbyteries in kentucky became the loudest voice for gradual emancipation, as a policy, accredited to Henry Clay. Even further, the spiritual community became a proponent of the Americanization of Africans in the Upper South. kentucky's history follows thematically throughout the nineteenth century a push-pull equilibrium of steps forward and back, closer and farther away from emancipation. There is too often an over emphasis placed on personal biographies at the expense of assessing the historical significance of particular institutions, namely institutionalized religion. Of course without the membership and support of influential Americans the kentucky presbyterian church would fail to maintain historical relevance. In its own right, nonetheless, the church should be noted as a revolutionary body, responsible for its abolitionist modernity. Evidence suggests that in Border States of antebellum America a large faction of poor whites took stances against both the spread of and the contemporary existence of African slavery.