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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:17:16 -0500 From: Jack McKivigan <jmckivig@iupui.edu> I have to take serious issue with one comment in Raymond Krohn's posting in response to James Oakes when he states: "Abolitionist, and then after the 1840 organized antislavery schism, almost exclusively Garrisonian, appeals to conscience were deployed to awaken the hearts and minds of slaveholders, as well as Americans more generally, to the sinfulness of human enslavement." Maybe I am misreading your point, but it seems to overlook the moral suasion employed by the organizations and members of the Weleyan Methodist Connection, American Baptist Free Missionary Society, the Free Presbyterian Church, the Progressive Friends, several smaller denominations and countless independent "free churches," the American Missionary Association, the American Reform Tract and Baptist Society, etc. Many of these tens of thousands of individual abolitionists also support radical political abolitionism and the did not compromise their moral condemnation of slavery, despite what some Garrisonains charged. (Some di and they mainly ended up in the camp studied by Fred Blue.) These radical Christian abolitionist in terms of total membership were probably ten times or more larger than the followers of Garrison and by ceasely agitating the abolition issue in church circles contributed greatly to the sectional disputes that caused the Civil War and produced emancipation.
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