Quote by Andrew Himes

“Doak and other early abolitionists planted a host of Presbyterian churches and “log cabin colleges” that taught a strong antislavery doctrine. They laid the basis…

— Andrew Himes

“The revival movement was responsible for a tremendous spread of Christianity among slaves in the South. Slaves came in their thousands to camp meetings…

— Andrew Himes

“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed to slavery.…

— Andrew Himes

“Religion played a major part in the history of the Appalachian pioneers. Their way of life was characterized by a strong sense of independence…

— Nancy Richmond

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes

“The 1860s ushered in a number of changes that profoundly transformed the nation. While the emancipation of enslaved people and the increased resettlement of…

— Jim Downs

“Charles G. Finney, known as “America’s foremost revivalist,” was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening. Finney was a fiery, entertaining, and spontaneous…

— Andrew Himes

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton labor. Yet,…

— Edward E. Baptist

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

— Benjamin F. Wade

“THE FIRM POLITICAL and scientific support for slavery made it all the more difficult for the abolitionists to change the minds of the consumers…

— Ibram X. Kendi