Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810 (Religion in America)

by Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $215.26

  This study analyses the conflicts between Methodists - primarily white women, slaves, and the poor - and their opponents in the Revolutionary and early national American South. Cynthia Lyerly shows how, by condemning pride, violence, gentry hegemony, and slavery, Methodists fashioned an ethic radically at odds with that of southern elites and the masculine culture of honour.