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New York's burned-over district : a documentary history
Title
New York's burned-over district : a documentary history / edited by Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey.
ISBN
9781501770531
1501770535
9781501770548
1501770543
9781501770555
9781501770562
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xiv, 403 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm
Summary
"New York's Burned-over District uses primary source documents to tell the story of how Christian revivalism transformed central and western New York into a critical hub of social reform in nineteenth-century America"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: New York's Burned-over District. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Treaty with the Six Nations
A General View of New York
New York Population Growth
New York's Environmental Transformation
Timothy Mather Cooley's Missionary Journal
Reverend Jacob Cram's Mission
Sagoyewatha's Reply to Reverend Jacob Cram
Constitution of the Waterloo Missionary Society
Reports of Episcopal Missionaries
Missionaries to Sailors and Canal Workers
Charles Finney's Argument for Religious Revivals
Revivals at Marcellus and Amber
Report of New York Revivals
Bradford King's Conversion
Nancy Alexander Tracy's Conversion
A Convention to Regulate Revivals
Theodore Weld on a Revival's Aftermath
Theodore Weld on Revivals and Women's Rights
The Grimké Sisters on the Limits of Revivalism and Reform
Brothertown and Religious Autonomy
A Baptist Constitution
Baptist Trustee Minutes
Methodist Population Report
Proposal for a Methodist College
Building the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls
The Growth of Presbyterianism in the Synod of Geneva
A Presbyterian Congregation's Confession of Faith and Covenant
Race and Ministry in Wayne County
Joseph Smith's Visions
Mormonism's Early Critics
Parley P. Pratt Finds the Book of Mormon
William Miller's Biblical Calculations
William Miller Defends His Prediction
A Historical Rebuttal of Millerism
Matthias the Prophet
Shaker Charity
The Church Family at Watervliet
Account of the Shaker Settlement of Sodus Bay
Indenture of Susan Remer to the Shakers of Watervliet
Shakers and the Education of Children
A Shaker Hymn
Complex Marriage
John Humphrey Noyes's Home Talks
A Rebuttal of Noyes and the Perfectionism
Abijah Beckwith's Reflections on a Political Career
Selections from New York's 1821 Constitution
An Anti-Masonic Declaration of Independence
Report of the Cayuga County Temperance Society
A Sabbatarian Convention
The Anti-Rent Wars
Selections from New York's 1846 Constitution
Abijah Beckwith's Consideration of Civil Rights for Women
Rev. Thomas James on Anti-Slavery Activism
New York Governor William L. Marcy Denounces Abolitionism
New York Methodists on Abolitionism
Establishing an Abolitionist Newspaper
Resolutions of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society
Creating Anti-Slavery Petitions
How to be an Abolitionist
Gerrit Smith's Critique of the Clergy on Abolitionism
The Jerry Rescue
The Legacy of the Burned-Over District.
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