Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802-1874...

— —

Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr.

Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves

Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802-1874

Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr.

$127

Hardback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English

University of South Carolina Press
23 October 2025

History of the Americas; Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches

Presbyterian Church missionaries and the theology of race, enslavement, and Native American removal

In Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. examines Presbyterian missionaries' attempts to live up to their understood calling from their God to serve as shepherds for their congregations. These missionaries, Pickett finds, faltered in this duty when faced with the racial hierarchy of an enslaved society. He focuses on individual missionaries, most prominently John Lafayette Girardeau and T. C. Stuart, who attempted to integrate enslaved, and later freed, men and women into the church. By examining these missionaries and mission churches, Pickett sheds new light not only on the complicated role that religion played in shaping slavery and Native American removal in the US South but also the fate of these ideas in the crucible of the Civil War and its aftermath.

By: Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr.
Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 27mm
ISBN: 9781643366142
ISBN 10: 1643366149
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 23 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. is university historian and clinical assistant professor in the College of Education at Clemson University. He holds an MA from Covenant Theological Seminary, an MA in history from College of Charleston, and a PhD in history from University of Mississippi.