Christy, David. Pulpit Politics; Or, Ecclesiastical Legislation on Slavery, in its Disturbing Influences on the American Union. Cincinnati. Faran & McLean. 1863. 630pp.

An absolutely fascinating history of the interaction between preaching and the issue of slavery and how that influenced policy, the Civil War, etc., includes chapters like: That Slavery Presents an Insuperable Barrier to the Evangelization of the Africans Subjected to its Control, Examination of the Errors in the British Theories as Applied to American Slavery after West India Emancipation, What the Early Anti-Slavery Writers taught in Relation to the Bible and Slavery, How the Abolitionists were met by Arguments their Bible Theories, General Results of the Missionary Efforts among the African Race, in Freedom and in Slavery, Placed in Contrast, The Christian Character of the Converts in the Missions among the Heathen Contrasted with that of the Converted Slaves in the United States, Effects of Emancipation on Hayti, in Brazil, Mexico, and South America, etc.

Cloth well-worn with tears and stains, part of cloth even lacking on rear board; however, text very solid and clean with small corner stain extending through a few signatures.