Beams of light on early Methodism in America [electronic resource] : chiefly drawn from the diary, letters, manuscripts, documents, and original tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper / compiled by Geo. A. Phoebus.
An account of the Methodist Church in antebellum America, most of the material comes from the personal records of Ezekiel Cooper, an itinerant preacher active in the latter part of the 18th century. It uses the personal experiences of Cooper, as recorded in his letters and personal diaries, to describe the status and activities of the Methodist Church in New Jersey, Baltimore, Annapolis, Alexandria (Virginia), Charleston (South Carolina), Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Wilmington, Delaware. Events described include various denominational conferences and public reactions to church activities such as revivals. Also includes a chapter on the printing of Methodist books and an addendum on the Methodist Church's opposition to slavery.
Electronic resources
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Text scanned (OCR) by Richard Musselwhite and Andrew Leiter. Images scanned by Andrew Leiter. Text encoded by Meredith Evans and Jill Kuhn Sexton.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.Title from electronic title page.
- Original Version Note:
- Transcribed from: Beams of light on early Methodism in America : chiefly drawn from the diary, letters, manuscripts, documents, and original tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper / compiled by Geo. A. Phoebus. New York : Phillips & Hunt ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1887. xiv, 337 p. Title on spine: Light on early Methodism.
- Funding Information Note:
- Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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- System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
