Historian Mark Noll of Wheaton College points out that «what makes Christian support of abolitionism tricky [to analyze] is that there were also substantial Christian voices and movements oriented in two other directions: one actually in support of slavery and the other against abolition. (religion-online.org)
In it, Kidd takes the bare facts surrounding Charleston's famous (and infamous) 19th century abolitionist / emancipist sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and, as she puts it, grafts fiction onto truth to weave a fascinating and inspirational account of early abolitionism in America. (bookbrowse.com)
The main stance of the Catholic Church, for example, was not so much proslavery as anti-abolitionism, because the church associated abolitionism with extreme individualism.» (religion-online.org)