To Preach Deliverance to the Captives - Freedom and Slavery in the Protestant Mind of George Bourne, 1780-1845

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. Ryan McIlhenny examines the interplay of Bourne's pioneering efforts in abolitionism and his intensely anti-Catholic views.