123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Slavery to Sin and the Sin of Slavery: Spiritual and Social Divisions Caused by American Antislavery, 1830–60

Slavery to Sin and the Sin of Slavery: Spiritual and Social Divisions Caused by American Antislavery, 1830–60

AHA Session 223

Monday, January 5, 2009: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Empire Ballroom East (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

John W. Stauffer, Harvard University

Papers:

Damned Nation? Belief in and Uses of Damnation among American Abolitionists
Kathryn Gin, Yale University

“A Mob to Carry on the Peaceable Work”: Antebellum Disunion, Slavery, and the Religious Border
April Holm, Columbia University

Seeking Air Too Pure for a Slave to Breathe: Abolitionist Schism along Racial Lines and the British Refuge
John H. Matsui, Johns Hopkins University

Comment:

Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame

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