Presbyterians in North Carolina: Race, Politics, and Religious Identity in Historical Perspective

Suggested Readings

suggested Reading 1. Old World Origins and New World Horizons for discussion of North Carolina’s religious and social development in this era, including that of the Presbyterian Church, see Walter H. Conser Jr., A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina (lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2006); David I. Craig, A History of the Development of the Presbyterian Church in North Carolina (Richmond: Whittet & shepperson, 1907); William H. foote, Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical (New york: R. Carter, 1846); Hugh lefler and William s. Powell, Colonial North Carolina: A History (New york: Charles scribner’s sons, 1973); and ernest T. Thompson, Presbyterians in the South, vol. 1 (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1963). Coverage of the Palatine Germans can be found in James I. Martin sr., “The Palatine settlements of 1710–1800,” occasional Papers of the Duplin County Historical society, Footnotes 53 (1994): 1–4. for discussion of the Huguenots, see William C. simpson Jr., The Huguenot Trail: The Life and Descendants of the Reverend Claude Philippe de Richebourg and His Wife Anne Chastain (Burlington: Privately printed, 1999), while leigh eric schmidt explores scottish background in Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1989). Also useful is Alexander Murdoch, “A scottish Document concerning emigration to North Carolina in 1772,” North Carolina Historical Review 67 (1990): 438–49. Alan D. Watson provides insightful commentary in A History of New Bern and Craven County (New Bern: Tryon Palace Commission, 1987), while Ruth Trivette does the same for the fayetteville Presbytery in The Merging of the Gaels: A History of Fayetteville Presbytery, 1813–1985 (fayetteville, NC: Pilot, 1987). for de Tocqueville’s comments, see Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Phillips Bradley, 2 vols. (New york: vintage Books, 1945). on women and gender issues more broadly in this era, see lois Boyd and R. Douglas Brackenridge, Presbyterian Women in America, 2nd ed. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), suggested Readings 222 and susan H. lindley, You Have Stept Out of Your Place: A History of Women and Religion in America (louisville, Ky: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1996). for discussion of North Carolina, see Gertrude J. Howell, History of the Women of the Church: Synod of North Carolina, Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1912–1962 (Raleigh: edwards & Broughton, 1962). Relevant sources on slave religion can be found in George Rawick, ed., The American Slave, 19 vols. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972). 2. Atlantic World Bonds and Backcountry Settlers An essential primary source for this period is Guy s. Klett, ed., Minutes of the Presbyterian Church in America, 1706–1788 (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Historical society, 1976), available in searchable electronic form at http://www. GoogleBooks.com. This website also contains minutes and abstracts of minutes for many other years, in addition to manuals of practice, narrative histories , and other sources. Also useful is the Presbyterian Board’s Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . . . 1706–1788, together with an index and the Minutes of the General Convention for Religious Liberty, 1766–1775, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1904). A good, comprehensive history of Northern Ireland, including the province at the time of the exodus of tens of thousands of Presbyterians, is Jonathan Bardon, A History of Ulster (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1992). for a detailed history of Irish Presbyterianism, see finlay Holmes, Our Irish Presbyterian Heritage (Belfast: Publication Committee, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 1985). Patrick Griffin’s The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764 (Princeton and oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2001) is a thoughtful and very readable analysis of this multifaceted topic. Raymond M. Bost and Jeff l. Norris discuss the early immigration of German Reformed settlers in All One Body: The Story of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod, 1803–1993 (salisbury: North Carolina synod, elCA, 1994). Mainly narrative rather than analytical is the indispensable Robert W. Ramsey, Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747– 1762 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1964). for a compact history of North Carolina during this period, see Hugh T. lefler and William s. Powell, Colonial North Carolina: A History (New york: Charles scribner’s sons, 1973). The introductions to the second series of The Colonial Records of North 223 suggested Readings Carolina, 11...