Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Society of Church History Session 4
Religion, Race, and Reform in Antebellum America

Hilton, Jackson Room

Chair: Ronald G. Walters, Johns Hopkins University
Papers:

James Forten, William Lloyd Garrison, and “The Spirit of the Times” in the Antislavery Crusade
Julie Winch, University of Massachusetts at Boston

“ Deep Sympathy with Burdened Spirits”: Faith and Fellowship on the Underground Railroad
Douglas M. Strong, Wesley Theological Seminary

Radical Abolitionism, Anti-Catholic Politics, and the Construction of Race in Massachusetts, 1855
Dean Grodzins, Meadville-Lombard Theological Seminary

Comment: Reginald F. Hildebrand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill