Although slaveholding southerners and Catholics in general had little in common, both groups found themselves relentlessly attacked in the northern evangelical press during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In "Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860," W. Jason Wallace skillfully examines sermons, books, newspaper articles, and private correspondence of members of three antebellum groups--northern evangelicals, southern evangelicals, and Catholics--and argues that the divisions among them stemmed, at least in part, from disagreements over the...
Although slaveholding southerners and Catholics in general had little in common, both groups found themselves relentlessly attacked in the northern...
