Frontier mission : a history of religion west of the Southern Appalachians to 1861 /
Walter Brownlow Posey.
- Lexington : University of Kentuky Press, (c)1966.
- 1 online resource (viii, 436 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographical references.
Into the Valley -- The early camp meeting era -- Some denominational splinters -- Two new denominations -- Practices of local churches -- Government of the churches -- The Indians -- The Negroes -- Catholic expansion -- Media of education -- Reform and discipline -- The slavery problem before the 1840s -- Crises and divisions -- On the eve of the Civil War -- The balance sheet.
In this first major study of religion in the South prior to the Civil War, Mr. Posey surveys the work of seven chief denominations --