Frontier mission : a history of religion west of the Southern Appalachians to 1861 / Walter Brownlow Posey.

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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 -- Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ, Cumberland Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Episcopal -- as they developed in the present states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri.

Includes bibliographical references.

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