 | The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865 Subjects: Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements; Slavery and the church; Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Reflecting a prodigious amount of research in primary and secondary sources, this book examines the efforts of American abolitionists to bring northern religious institutions to the forefront of the antislavery movement. John R. McKivigan is Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 , also from Cornell, and the coeditor of several books. |
