McMahon, EdwardBuss, Elizabeth2019-09-272019-09-27192820117159http://hdl.handle.net/1773/44562Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 1928For this study five Protestant ohurches have been selected and widely different results have been found. The Quakers with the anti-slavery element in the ascendance early freed the church from slavery and remained united. The Prot¬ estant Episcopal church under the guidance of slaveholders retained slaveholding members within the church and remained united. The Baptist, llethodist and Presbyterian ohurches engaged in a bitter struggle for years with neither the pro- slavery or anti-slavery side able to maintain its policy. In the end all three ohurches separate!; the Baptist and Methodist ohurches in 1844-1845, and the Presbyterian church at the outbreak of the Civil War.98 leavesenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Slavery--United states || Slavery and the churches || Slavery || United StatesThesis--HistoryThesis