Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves
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Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves

Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874

  1. 269 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves

Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874

About this book

Presbyterian Church missionaries and the theology of race, enslavement, and Native American removal

In Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. examines Presbyterian missionaries' attempts to live up to their understood calling from their God to serve as shepherds for their congregations. These missionaries, Pickett finds, faltered in this duty when faced with the racial hierarchy of an enslaved society. He focuses on individual missionaries, most prominently John Lafayette Girardeau and T. C. Stuart, who attempted to integrate enslaved, and later freed, men and women into the church. By examining these missionaries and mission churches, Pickett sheds new light not only on the complicated role that religion played in shaping slavery and Native American removal in the US South but also the fate of these ideas in the crucible of the Civil War and its aftermath.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Introduction Southern Religion and Domestic Missions to Enslaved Persons
  8. Chapter 1. “A Black Swan in the Flock”: Race and Enslavement in Rocky Creek, South Carolina, 1801–2
  9. Chapter 2. “The Father of Native American Missions in Western South Carolina”: T. C. Stuart and the Chickasaw Mission in Weste n South Carolina before Removal, 1819–34
  10. Chapter 3. “To and Fro Like a Forest in a Storm”: Antebellum Missionary Activity in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, 1829–47
  11. Chapter 4. “We Are Marching to Zion”: Antebellum Missionaries in Charleston, South Carolina, 1847–60
  12. Chapter 5. “Still in Its Bud in Our Every Heart”: Postbellum Multiethnic Worship in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865–74
  13. Chapter 6. “The Evils Which Now Oppress Us”: Southern Civil Religion and the Lost Cause
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index