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New York's burned-over district : a documentary history / edited by Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey.
Van Pelt Library BR555.N7 N49 2023
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--New York (State)--Influence.
- Christianity.
- Social reformers--New York (State)--History--19th century.
- Social reformers.
- New York (State)--Church history--19th century.
- New York (State).
- Christianity--Influence.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 403 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: New York's Burned-over District.
- ISBN:
- 9781501770531
- 1501770535
- 9781501770548
- 1501770543
- OCLC:
- 1346348928
- Publisher Number:
- 99994754413
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