Chapter
Seeing slavery and hearing from the Presbyterians
Chapter 2 The Elephant in the Room
The Glasgow Emancipation Society stirs the potand Humble Overtures break the silence
Dr Candlish takes the reins
The Committee reports that everyone was against slavery
Chapter 3 Chalmers and Smyth – Tensions across the Atlantic.
A blast from the deep South
The cautious abolitionist
A careful compromise in The Witness
Chapter 4 Keeping a Lid on the Volcano
The Glasgow Abolitionists enter the fray again
Sparks fly and die at the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh
The 1845 General Assembly – discussion stifled for the sake of ‘unity’
Letters to and from America
Chapter 5 ‘Douglass has blawn sic a flame’
Self-liberated and strong
Temperance and Opposition
Storming the City Crags with ‘Quakeresses’
Chapter 6 War, Drink, the Sabbath and the 1846 Assembly
A loose cannon among the abolitionists
The 1846 Assembly: A debate about no debate
A Veteran Abolitionist Enters the Fray
Chapter 7 Ballads and Broadsheets
Making Money on Both Sides
The Stain of Slaveholders’ Money
Chapter 8 The Irish take a Firmer Stand
Assemblies and letters to America
Chapter 9 Evangelicals and Abolitionists – Houses Divided
Douglass Returns to Scotland but Emancipationists Divide
The Free Church Anti-Slavery Society – a late entry on the scene
Chapter 10 The Last Battles and Hunting ‘the brave Macbeth’
The 1847 General Assembly
Strictures, Pamphlets, and another Assembly
The pamphlets of James Macbeth
Serious charges against the minister of Lauriston
Chapter 11 A Passing Storm in a Teacupor the Shape of Things to Come?
The ethical issues – twentieth-century parallels
Scottish public awareness and the next rounds
Introduction: A Church with Freedom but no Money
Chapter 1: A Delegation Warmly Received
Chapter 2: The Elephant in the Room
Chapter 3: Chalmers and Smyth – Tensions across the Atlantic
Chapter 4: Keeping a Lid on the Volcano
Chapter 5: ‘Douglass has blawn sic a flame’
Chapter 6: War, Drink, the Sabbath, and the 1846 Assembly
Chapter 7: Ballads and Broadsheets
Chapter 8: The Irish Take a Firmer Stand
Chapter 9: Evangelicals and Abolitionists – Houses Divided
Chapter 10: The Last Battles and Hunting ‘the Brave Macbeth’
Chapter 11:A Passing Storm in a Teacup or the Shape of Things to Come?
Newspapers, Journals and Collections
Books and Pamphlets before 1865
Books, Articles and Pamphlets after 1865
Send Back the Money!'
：The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery
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