My Cardwell ancestors were described by the family as "staunch  
Methodists". They seemed to have converted in the early 1800s. My gr- 
gr grandfather attended Centenary Methodist Church in Richmond; they  
had no slaves, and he taught Sunday School to blacks there.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Jan 16, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe wrote:

> The Methodists, like the Baptists and Presbyterians ultimately  
> split between
> northern and southern branches essentially over slavery.  In the  
> 1830s (or
> 1840s) the Methodist Episcopal South denomination arose as a pro- 
> slavery
> version of Methodism.
>
> Harold S. Forsythe
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> Subject: Re: The beginning of the Episcopal Church
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>
>> A lot of people aren't aware of it, but Methodists were as opposed to
>> slavery as were the Quakers. By some accounts, during the slave
>> rebellion by Gabriel Prosser in the early 1800s, they were going to
>> spare "Methodists, Quakers and Frenchmen."
>>
>> Nancy
>>
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>> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>>
>> --Daniel Boone
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 15, 2007, at 7:22 PM, John Philip Adams wrote:
>>
>>> This may explain why Methodist looked like a good alternative
>>>
>>> John Philip Adams
>>> Texas 77520
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