Wellspring of Liberty How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty

Name: Wellspring of Liberty How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty
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ISBN: 9780195388060

ISBN-10: 0195388062

ISBN-13: 9780195388060

Edition: 2010

Authors: John A. Ragosta

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Before the American Revolution, no state more seriously discriminated against and persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Over 50 dissenting ministers, primarily Baptists, were jailed, and numerous Baptists and Presbyterians were beaten or harassed. African-American congregants were treated particularly viciously. By the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted, no state provided more extensive protection to religious freedom, nor did so in terms nearly so elegant as Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom. This dramatic change occurred because Virginia's dissenters, constituting as much as one-third or more of the population, demanded religious freedom before…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/3/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction



Virginians Dissent



Pleading for Reform and Demanding Freedom



British Plans for Success



Did the Dissenters Fight?



After the War



What Did They Fight, and Bargain, For?


Epilogue



Persons Persecuted for Religion, Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Post-1763



Denominational Support for Mobilization in Virginia during the American Revolution


Notes


Bibliography


Index