“The Necessary Result of Piety”: Slavery and Religious Establishments in South Carolina Presbyterianism, 1800–1840

Historians have argued that disestablishment liberated American religion and allowed for the proliferation of religious practice and religious freedom, especially individualistic Evangelicalism in the South. This proposition reduced nearly all of southern Protestantism to Revivalist Evangelicalism,...

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Main Author: Miles Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-09-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/9/180