Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small,
scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options.
By the early nineteenth century, they were a unified, powerful, and
rapidly-growing denomination, poised to send missionaries to the
other side of the world. One of the most influential yet neglected
leaders in that transformation was Oliver Hart, longtime pastor of
the Charleston Baptist Church. Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist
America is the first modern biography of Hart, arguably the most
important evangelical leader in the pre-Revolutionary South. During
his thirty years in Charleston, Hart emerged as the region's most
important Baptist denominational architect. His outspoken
patriotism forced him to flee Charleston when the British army
invaded Charleston in 1780, but he left behind a southern Baptist
people forever changed by his energetic ministry. Hart's
accommodating stance toward slavery enabled him and the white
Baptists who followed him to reach the center of southern society,
but also eventually doomed the national Baptist denomination of
Hart's dreams. More than a biography, Oliver Hart and the Rise of
Baptist America seamlessly intertwines Hart's story with that of
eighteenth-century American Baptists, providing one of the most
thorough accounts to date of this important and understudied
religious group's development. This book makes a significant
contribution to the study of Baptist life and evangelicalism in the
pre-Revolutionary South and beyond.
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