Civil War Abolition

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The war began when the confederates bombarded Union Soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring 1865. Robert E. Less surrendered the last major confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The last battle was fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas on May 13, 1865. Historians debating the origins of the America Civil War focus on the reasons why seven Southern states declared their secession from the United Sates (the union), why they united to form the Confederate State of American (the ‘‘confederacy’’), and why the North refused to let them go.

Christianity was everywhere present in the leading to the American Civil War and in was itself. As during the American Revolution, …show more content…

There was an antislavery agents, that was working to convert sinners and end slavery. The North and the South could not see eye to eye on abolishment of slave. The North saw slavery a means of converting blacks into Christian. The South use the Bible as away to keep the slave.

In the mid-1840s, the Baptists and the Methodists had become the largest Protestant denominations, both divided over slavery. Methodists concerned of bishops holding bondsmen. The Baptist wanted the appointment of slaveholders as missionaries led to southern Baptist formal organization of the Southern Baptist Convention, which came the largest of all Protestant bodies in the country.

Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark H. Null…Noll’s book adds yet another important commentary to the war that still…collection of works treating religion during America’s most dividing conflict.

Mark A. Null reminds us that was has sometimes been the mother of theological profundity, most treatment of the relationship between the Civil War and intellectual life have focused on those…Null’s work demonstrates now the Civil War was a crisis for Americans, not only as citizens or republicans, but as Christian…if not, the treatment in American’s God is probably