| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Canada and the United States

Sally G. McMillen. To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865–1915. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 297. Cloth $54.95, paper $24.95.

Sally G. McMillen's study of Sunday schools in black and white churches between the end of the Civil War and 1915 helps fill a gap in our knowledge of an institution that played a key role in the shaping of southern religious life. She confines herself to three white Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian denominations and four black Baptist and Methodist denominations. Even though smaller denominations and the emerging Holiness and Pentecostal movements are largely left out of the account, the choices for the period discussed are reasonable ones. Nevertheless, some attention to groups hostile to Sunday schools, such as the Primitive Baptists, might have provided insight into conflicting forces within southern society. 1

Sunday schools appeared in England in the eighteenth century but began to flourish and take on their modern shape there and in America only in the nineteenth century. By mid-century, as Anne M. Boylan has shown, a substantial number of Protestants, especially in the northeastern states, had come to believe that Sunday schools ought to be an essential means of Christian education and especially conversion. Although some southern church leaders took a lively interest in Sunday schools before the Civil War, McMillen's brief observations on that period suggest that the movement was significantly weaker in the South than elsewhere. But until we know more about antebellum southern Sunday schools, we will not be able to identify significant continuities over the Civil War era. . . .

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