As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped
their efforts would stand as a" citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John …

48 The Journal of American History June 2005 wardsean tradition. Although now largely
unknown, that tradition represented a major intellectual and social force in antebellum …

Many antislavery authors in the eighteenth century contend that enslavement degrades the
human mind and causes enslaved people to exhibit inferior moral or intellectual traits. They …

This dissertation traces the evolution of black abolitionism in colonial North America and the
United States from 1740 to 1841. Focusing primarily on reformers, theologians, and activists …

Americans understood and sought to solve the problem of slavery in terms strongly colored
by understandings of religious conversion. In the early-eighteenth century, Great Awakening …