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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: Sanctity, slavery, and segregation: Methodists and society in nineteenth century Georgia Abstract: Nineteenth-century Georgia Methodism was sui generis to its region because it adapted to the southern social order and yet remained Wesleyan. Wesleyanism, rooted in Anglicanism and Pietism, has its feeble beginnings in Georgia in the 1780s. The advent of campmeetings after 1800 increased Methodist membership and thereby helped fill a religious void which hitherto had existed in the state. Early Methodism was concentrated among white plain folk of the upcountry. The 1820s saw vast increases in Methodist membership. Methodists began to attract many wealthy Georgians and large numbers of slaves. This wedded Methodism firmly to the southern social system based on plantation slavery. Yet Georgia Methodists were not very different from their northern co-religionists except on the issue of slavery. After creation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1845, Georgia Methodists became more insistent on Biblical literalism and decried religious-political involvement. But few of them ascribed to an Old Testament vision of a hierarchical society. They remained conversion-oriented evangelicals whose saving message was aimed at individuals. |
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