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Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874 - Softcover

Pickett Sr., Otis Westbrook

 
9781643366371: Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1643366378 ISBN 13: 9781643366371
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2025

Synopsis

Presbyterian Church missionaries and the theology of race, enslavement, and Native American removal

In Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. examines Presbyterian missionaries' attempts to live up to their understood calling from their God to serve as shepherds for their congregations. These missionaries, Pickett finds, faltered in this duty when faced with the racial hierarchy of an enslaved society. He focuses on individual missionaries, most prominently John Lafayette Girardeau and T. C. Stuart, who attempted to integrate enslaved, and later freed, men and women into the church. By examining these missionaries and mission churches, Pickett sheds new light not only on the complicated role that religion played in shaping slavery and Native American removal in the US South but also the fate of these ideas in the crucible of the Civil War and its aftermath.

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About the Author

Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. is university historian and clinical assistant professor in the College of Education at Clemson University. He holds an MA from Covenant Theological Seminary, an MA in history from College of Charleston, and a PhD in history from University of Mississippi.

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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1643366378
ISBN 13 
9781643366371
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
268