Ben Wright \'s Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American Abolitionism during the early years of the republic.
Historians often emphasize status anxieties, market changes, biracial coo.
From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in secession and civil war.
Ben Wright \'s Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American Abolitionism during the early years of the republic