*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. xi*I. COMPROMISE AND CONSCIENCE: The Church and Slavery 1780-1816, pg. 3*II. COMPROMISE CONFIRMED: The Sectional Adjustment to Slavery 1808-1830, pg. 30*III. THE SOUTHERN COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: The Mission to the Slaves 1824-1844, pg. 62*IV. THE GENTEEL COMPROMISE OF CONSCIENCE: Methodists and Colonization 1824-1844, pg. 88*V. THE RADICAL ALTERNATIVE TO COMPROMISE: The Rise of Methodist Abolitionism 1832-1836, pg. 113*VI. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: The Abolitionists and the North 1836-1839, pg. 148*VII. CLASH OF ALTERNATIVES: North and South 1836-1840, pg. 177*VIII. REALIGNMENT OF ALTERNATIVES: The Conservatives Discover Antislavery without Abolitionism 1840-1844, pg. 212*IX. CHOICE AND DISJUNCTION: The General Conference of 1844, pg. 246*EPILOGUE: Of Slavery and Morality, pg. 283*APPENDIX, pg. 291*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 305*INDEX, pg. 325
