By Iain Whyte
ISBN-10: 0227173899
ISBN-13: 9780227173893
Ship again the Money!' is an intensive and gripping exam of a desirable and forgotten point of Scottish and American relatives and Church heritage. A seminal interval of Abolition task is uncovered by way of Iain Whyte via a research of the fiery crusade 'Send again the Money!' named after 'the hue and cry of the day' that encapsulated the argument that divided households, groups, and the unfastened Church itself. This exam of the unfastened Church's involvement with American Presbyterianism within the 19th century unearths the moral furore attributable to a Church wishing to emancipate itself from the spiritual and civil domination supported by means of the validated faith of the nation. The unfastened Church for this reason chanced on an affinity with these oppressed somewhere else, yet as a result came upon itself financially supported through the Southern slave states of the USA. Whyte sensitively handles this inherent contradiction within the political, ecclesiastical, and theological associations, whereas informing the reader of the jobs of charismatic characters resembling Robert Burns, Thomas Chalmers and Frederick Douglass. those key contributors formed modern tradition with motion, nice oratory, and rhetoric. the writer adroitly attracts parallels from the 20 th century onwards, bringing the reader to a fuller knowing of the historical and topical concerns inside worldwide Christianity, and the contentious subject of slavery. 'Send again the Money!' throws gentle upon nineteenth-century tradition, British and American Abolitionists, and ecclesiastical politics, and is written in a transparent and fascinating type.
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14 Chalmers continued by expressing the hope of a commencement towards emancipation in America and harked back twenty-ęve years when, after reading Humboldt’s travels in South America, he had formulated the liĴle pamphlet for Clarkston. ‘I have not been able to engage in any sort of public business since I had the pleasure of meeting with you’ he continued, ‘but I observe that in our Assembly’s 3: Chalmers and Smyth 51 Commission, a few weeks back, the subject of American slavery was entertained.
A simple mathematical calculation of the plan the pamphlet set out, revealed that for a slave to emancipate him or herself and the family (for their freedom too had to be purchased by labour) would have taken many decades. It also betrayed a naïve assumption that Southern slave-owners would willingly permit their slaves to have suĜcient time oě work in order to gain their liberation from the plantation. It reĚected Chalmers’s passionate opposition to governmental intervention to support the poor and provide relief, except where (during the Irish famine for example) there was no obvious alternative.
Chalmers knew William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, and Zachary Macaulay, son of a highland manse, who aĴempted to secure him as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the new University of London before Chalmers accepted a similar chair at the University of Edinburgh. 7 Even allowing for the fact that the British emancipation campaign was still at an early stage, moving cautiously along the path of ‘mitigating’ the worst horrors of the institution and looking into the distance for its ęnal abolition, the pamphlet did not sit easily with the 3: Chalmers and Smyth 47 London based campaign.
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