Jack P. Maddex

American Slavery and the Immediate Duty of Southern Slaveholders

History & Biography

“Eli Carruthers’ 1862 writing is a very important antislavery voice from the Confederate South, by a pastor thoroughly familiar with both the Scriptures and the slaveholding society in which he lived . . . It is surprising, almost scandalous, that, though mentioned in scholarly histories, it has remained so long unpublished. By making it available in print, Jack Davidson is doing a valuable service to scholarship and to the reading and thinking public.”

Still Letting My People Go

History & Biography

“This is the first thorough study of Old South pastor Eli Carruthers’ remarkable and original Christian critique of southern slavery. Davidson explains and analyzes Carruthers’ argument and situates it in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Moreover, having found Carruthers helpful in his own pastoral thinking about social problems, Davidson relates that argument to today’s Christian discussions of Scripture, history, and ethics. His book will educate both scholars and popular readers—and may edify them, too!”