Our Southern Zion. A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments.
Introduction.

1. The Tradition Established: A European Prologue.
2. The Context: The Colony of South Carolina.
3. The Tradition Transplanted: The Reformed Communities.
4. The Tradition Articulated: A Carolina Accent.
5. The Tradition Expanded: The Great Awakening.
6. Competing Impulses: Tories, Whigs, and the Revolution.
7. Institutional Developments: "Our Southern Zion"
8. A Church Both African American and Reformed.
9. An Antebellum Social Profile in Black and White: "Our Kind of People"
10. An Intellectual Tradition: The Quest for a Middle Way.
11. Slavery: "The Course Indicated by Stern Necessity"
12. Secession and Civil War: The End of Moderation.
13. The Challenge of an Almost New Order: "Hold Your Ground, Sir!"
14. The African American Reformed Community: Between Two Worlds.
15. The African American Reformed Community: "Two Warring Ideals in One Dark Body"
16. The White Reformed Community, 1876-1941: A "Little World" in Travail and Transition.
17. From "Our Little World" to the Sun Belt.

Appendixes:
A. Three Centuries of Reformed Congregations in the Carolina Low Country (1685-1985), compiled by Joseph B. Martin III.
B. Known Pastors in Colonial Presbyterian and Congregational Churches.
C. Presbyterian and Congregational Ministers, 1783-1861.
D. Pastors of Black Presbyterian and Congregational Churches and Principles of Black Institutions.
E. Leading White Presbyterian and Congregational Ministers or Those with Five or More Years in the Low Country.

Abbreviations.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.