A very desirable memoir of influential Second Great Awakening Methodist circuit preacher, George Brown [1792-1871].
Preaching from 1814-1860, he exercised his ministry at the extremities of the abolitionist cause, i.e. Ohio and Virginia. And his memoir is full of all we could hope for, detailed accounts of local revivals, other important personages from within the Methodist awakening, and extensive accounts of his conversations on the subject of slavery, including with Southern Methodists.
Brown, George. Recollections of Itinerant Life: Including Early Reminiscences. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co. 1868. Fourth Edition. 456pp.
Contents include: The Whisky Insurrection; Wounded in the War of 1812; The Camp-Meeting and the Giants of Methodism; The Prayer-Meeting and the Cross; The Defense of Baltimore against the British; First Methodist Love-Feast; The Negroes Sleeping in My Meeting; The Bilious Fever and its Cause; The Camp-Meeting; How Methodists at that Day [c.1815] Regarded Slavery; Revival of Religion; Methodism and Calvinism; Appointed Presiding Elder of Monongahela District; Trip to Ohio with Bishop McKendree; The New Lights [Charles Finney, Jedidiah Burchard, etc.]; A Remarkable Dream; Lorenzo Dow and General Jackson; Debate on Slavery at the Methodist Conference; Annual Conference the Slavery Question; A Sketch of Border Life in West Virginia; A Revival of Religion; Modes of Baptism; Camp-Meetings; A Southerner's View of Slave-trading; and the work closes with a glowing report of the Union victory of the Civil War and the end of slavery, etc. etc.
A good -, solid copy of a desirable work. Cloth worn through at extremities, as shown. Textually complete and generally solid with minor to moderate foxing throughout.
