Houses Divided: Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri
In his book, "Houses Divided: Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri," author Lucas Volkman provides insight into the significance of early- to mid- 19th-century rifts initially arising over the moral question of African American bondage. He examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of Missouri, then a slaveholding …
