Title New York's burned-over district a documentary history edited by Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey

Published Ithaca Cornell University Press 2023

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Description 1 online resource illustrations, maps Contents Treaty with the Six Nations -- A General View of New York -- New York Population Growth -- New York's Environmental Transformation -- Timothy Mather Cooley's Missionary Journal -- Reverend Jacob Cram's Mission -- Sagoyewatha's Reply to Reverend Jacob Cram -- Constitution of the Waterloo Missionary Society -- Reports of Episcopal Missionaries -- Missionaries to Sailors and Canal Workers -- Charles Finney's Argument for Religious Revivals -- Revivals at Marcellus and Amber -- Report of New York Revivals -- Bradford King's Conversion -- Nancy Alexander Tracy's Conversion -- A Convention to Regulate Revivals -- Theodore Weld on a Revival's Aftermath -- Theodore Weld on Revivals and Women's Rights -- The Grimké Sisters on the Limits of Revivalism and Reform -- Brothertown and Religious Autonomy -- A Baptist Constitution -- Baptist Trustee Minutes -- Methodist Population Report -- Proposal for a Methodist College -- Building the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls -- The Growth of Presbyterianism in the Synod of Geneva -- A Presbyterian Congregation's Confession of Faith and Covenant -- Race and Ministry in Wayne County -- Joseph Smith's Visions -- Mormonism's Early Critics -- Parley P. Pratt Finds the Book of Mormon -- William Miller's Biblical Calculations -- William Miller Defends His Prediction -- A Historical Rebuttal of Millerism -- Matthias the Prophet -- Shaker Charity -- The Church Family at Watervliet -- Account of the Shaker Settlement of Sodus Bay -- Indenture of Susan Remer to the Shakers of Watervliet -- Shakers and the Education of Children -- A Shaker Hymn -- Complex Marriage -- John Humphrey Noyes's Home Talks -- A Rebuttal of Noyes and the Perfectionism -- Abijah Beckwith's Reflections on a Political Career -- Selections from New York's 1821 Constitution -- An Anti-Masonic Declaration of Independence -- Report of the Cayuga County Temperance Society -- A Sabbatarian Convention -- The Anti-Rent Wars -- Selections from New York's 1846 Constitution -- Abijah Beckwith's Consideration of Civil Rights for Women -- Rev. Thomas James on Anti-Slavery Activism -- New York Governor William L. Marcy Denounces Abolitionism -- New York Methodists on Abolitionism -- Establishing an Abolitionist Newspaper -- Resolutions of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society -- Creating Anti-Slavery Petitions -- How to be an Abolitionist -- Gerrit Smith's Critique of the Clergy on Abolitionism -- The Jerry Rescue -- The Legacy of the Burned-Over District Summary "New York's Burned-over District uses primary source documents to tell the story of how Christian revivalism transformed central and western New York into a critical hub of social reform in nineteenth-century America"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2023) Subject Christianity -- New York (State) -- Influence Social reformers -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Christianity -- Influence Social reformers SUBJECT New York (State) -- Church history -- 19th century Subject New York (State) Genre/Form Electronic books Church history History Form Electronic book Author McBride, Spencer W. editor Dorsey, Jennifer Hull, 1969- editor. LC no. 2023004877 ISBN 9781501770562 150177056X 9781501770555 1501770551

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