Book Review

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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore. By William R. Sutton. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-271-01772-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-271-01773-2.)

William R. Sutton's study of evangelicals and artisans in antebellum Baltimore is quite good at what it does, though it may not accomplish everything it claims to do. This book is a welcome addition to the historical literature on religion and labor activism in the early-nineteenth-century United States, but it is not a revision of current scholarship. 1

Sutton's work is adept at juxtaposing artisanal activism and Methodist evangelicalism in Jacksonian Baltimore. More than any previous scholar, Sutton probes beyond church membership rolls and the sermons of prolabor preachers to understand how craftworkers linked their labor protest with evangelical enthusiasm. Sutton's research also shows how intense debates about power, authority, and social status erupted in labor organizations and churches. . . .

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