In New York’s Burned-over District , Spencer W. Mc Bride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey invite readers to experience the early American revivals and reform movements through the eyes of the revivalists and the reformers themselves.
Between 1790 and 1860, the mass migration of white settlers into New York State contributed to a historic Christian revival. This renewed spiritual interest and fervor occurred in particularly high concentration in central and western New York where men and women actively sought spiritual awakening and new religious affiliation. Contemporary observers referred to the region as ‘burnt’ or ‘infected’ with religious enthusiasm; historians now refer to as the Burned-over District.
New York’s Burned-over District highlights how Christian revivalism transformed the region into a critical hub of social reform in nineteenth-century America. An invaluable compendium of primary sources, this anthology revises standard interpretations of the Burned-over District and shows how the putative grassroots movements of the era were often coordinated and regulated by established religious leaders.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Introduction
Part I: Settlement
1. Treaty with the Six Nations
2. A General View of New York
3. New York Population Growth
4. New York’s Environmental Transformation
Part II: Missionaries
5. Timothy Mather Cooley’s Missionary Journal
6. Rev. Jacob Cram’s Mission
7. Sagoyewatha’s Reply to Rev. Jacob Cram
8. Constitution of the Waterloo Missionary Society
9. Reports of Episcopal Missionaries
10. Missionaries to Sailors and Canal Workers
Part III: Revivals
11. Charles Finney’s Argument for Religious Revivals
12. Revivals at Marcellus and Amber
13. Report of New York Revivals
14. Bradford King’s Conversion
15. Nancy Alexander Tracy’s Conversion
16. A Convention to Regulate Revivals
17. Theodore Weld on a Revival’s Aftermath
18. Theodore Weld on Revivals and Women’s Rights
19. The Grimké Sisters on the Limits of Revivalism and Reform
Part IV: Church Development
20. Brothertown and Religious Autonomy
21. A Baptist Constitution
22. Baptist Trustee Minutes
23. Methodist Population Report
24. Proposal for a Methodist College
25. Building the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls
26. The Growth of Presbyterianism in the Synod of Geneva
27. A Presbyterian Congregation’s Confession of Faith and Covenant
28. Race and Ministry in Wayne County
Part V: Kingdoms of God
29. Joseph Smith’s Visions
30. Mormonism’s Early Critics
31. Parley P. Pratt Encounters the Book of Mormon
32. William Miller’s Biblical Calculations
33. William Miller Defends His Prediction
34. A Historical Rebuttal of Millerism
35. Matthias the Prophet
Part VI: Intentional Communities
36. Shaker Charity
37. The Church Family at Watervliet
38. Account of the Shaker Settlement of Sodus Bay
39. Indenture of Susan Remer to the Shakers of Watervliet
40. Shakers and the Education of Children
41. A Shaker Hymn
42. Complex Marriage
43. John Humphrey Noyes’s Home Talks
44. A Rebuttal of Noyes and Perfectionism
Part VII: Religion and New York Politics
45. Abijah Beckwith’s Reflections on a Political Career
46. Selections from New York’s 1821 Constitution
47. An Anti-Masonic Declaration of Independence
48. Report of the Cayuga County Temperance Society
49. A Sabbatarian Convention
50. The Anti-rent Wars
51. Selections from New York’s 1846 Constitution
52. Abijah Beckwith’s Consideration of Civil Rights for Women
Part VIII: Abolitionism and Ultraism in the Burned-over District
53. Rev. Thomas James on Antislavery Activism
54. New York Governor William L. Marcy Denounces Abolitionism
55. New York Methodists on Abolitionism
56. Establishing an Antislavery Newspaper
57. Resolutions of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society
58. Creating Antislavery Petitions
59. How to Be an Abolitionist
60. Gerrit Smith’s Critique of the Clergy on Abolitionism
61. The Jerry Rescue
Conclusion: The Legacy of the Burned-over District
Sobre o autor
Spencer W. Mc Bride is Associate Managing Historian of the Joseph Smith Papers. He is the author of Pulpit and Nation and Joseph Smith for President, and coeditor of Contingent Citizens.Jennifer Hull Dorsey is Professor of History and founding Director of Siena College’s Mc Cormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution. She is the author of Hirelings.
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