In addition to the Matthews book recommended by David Kiracofe, I'd 
suggest the following on the fascinating interplay of religion, slavery, 
and emancipation in the South in the late 18th and early 19th centuries:

Peter J. Albert, "The Protean Institution: The Geography, Economy, and 
Ideology of Slavery in Post-Revolutionary Virginia" (PhD diss., U. of 
Maryland, 1976);

James D. Essig, /The Bonds of Wickedness: American Evangelicals against 
Slavery, 1770-1808/ (Philadelphia: Temple University Press,  1982);

Sylvia R. Frey, /Water From the Rock: Black Resistance in a 
Revolutionary Age/ (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991);

Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood, /Come Shouting to Zion: African American 
Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830/ 
(Chapel Hill and London:  University of North Carolina Press,  1998).

John B. Boles, ed., /Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and 
Religion in the American South, 1740-1870/ (Lexington: University Press 
of Kentucky, 1988).

Last but not least are the classic volumes by the late Winthrop Jordan, 
/White Over Black/, and David Brion Davis, /The Problem of Slavery in 
the Age of Revolution 1770-1823/ (also see Davis's /Slavery and Human 
Progress/ and /Inhuman Bondage/).

Doug Deal

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