Sentences with phrase «split over slavery»

Cooper was a prominent Democrat, but with the party split over slavery, he was happy to host a leading abolitionist in the newly built Great Hall.

The third large Protestant denomination to split over the slavery issue was the Methodist.

The Baptist was the second of the great Protestant denominations to split over the slavery issue.

The second great American Protestant denomination had split over slavery.

Instead hostility and resentment frequently motivated the ministry, especially in the denominations that had split over the slavery issue.

Not exact matches

Yet this claim belies the relationship of Reformed theology to abolition in the 1800s, as well as the splits within Methodism over slavery and the prejudices that haunted early Pentecostalism.