Projektnummer

0056539

Zusammenfassung

This Atlantic project will investigate evangelical revivalism's impact on the institution of slavery - working both to unsettle and legitimate it - and the role of revivalists in antislavery opposition. In contradistinction to regional, national, and denominational studies of evangelicalism, slavery, and antislavery, Liberty of Conscience: Transatlantic Evangelicalism, Slavery, and Antislavery (1730s-1830s) will offer a multi-denominational, transnational purview. The study will encompass German and German-American Moravians and Pietists, British and American Methodists, Baptists, Angl...