A superb primary resource and now exceptionally rare on the market, with excellent content on the American Revolution, Revivalism, Camp-Meetings, Slavery, Mormonism, the Westward Expansion, etc.
As early as 1781, we here have record of the conference is exploring disciplinary actions for Methodist preachers who own slaves, they are contemplating the Methodist church's corporate response to the slavery and the slave trade and their participation in the broader abolitionist movement. There are also rather extensive accounts of missions to the slaves, specific missionaries sent, the challenges of working on plantations in the South, Methodist work on the plantations in the West Indies, church communion and access to the sacraments for those who own slaves, etc.
Also included are minutes of the separate conferences from the period, including South Carolina, Georgia, etc., and the slave states.
Very rare on the market. The earliest and most thorough exploration of the formative years of the Methodist movement in America from just before the American Revolution until the period just after the Second Great Awakening, etc.
[Methodist, Slavery, Missions] Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church [America], for the Years 1773-1828. Complete in Three Volumes through 1846. New York. Published by T. Mason and G. Lane. 1840/46. First Edition.
Very handsomely preserved set in original full calf, rubbing at extremities, surface breeches to hinges [which remain stable] and leather rubbed through at corners. Some minor to moderate foxing scattered throughout as shown.
