"Pictures of Slavery in Church and State" written by a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist at the time, John Dixon Long (1817 – 1894), is considered to be one of the most influential readings in abolitionist circles. Dixon debated in his book the issue of slavery, breaking the silence on what was openly discussed as hypocrisy and cowardice of the Methodist religious hierarchy, given their founders' adamant prescriptions against slavery in the early doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Contents:

What Is Southern Slavery, and Who Are Slaves

Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery

The Conference Report

The Mischievous Colt

Abolitionist

Love of Military Titles

Going in Debt

Aunt Phillis

Popular Preachers in the South

Rum and Slavery

The Wicked Slave

The Foreign Slave-trade

The Great American Republic

Tobacco and Slavery

Slavery and Novels

The Baltimore Conference

Slavery and White Labor

Maryland Hospitality

Personal Incidents

The Fourth of July

A Dying Babe in Jail

Testimony of John Wesley Against Slavery