Thesis To Do List:

1. Sources to look at: (Must find newer sources)

a. Don Matthews
b. John Boles
c. JSTOR
d. American History in Life
e. Academic Research Premier
f. Charleston Newspapers (what educated ppl thought)
g. World Cat
h. Randy Sparks “Religion in Pre Civil War South” Companion to the American
South, edited by John Boles. 156-175.
i. David Hall “Religion and Society: Problems and Reconsiderations” Colonial
British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, edited
by Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole.
j. William Warren Sweet, Religion in the Development of American Culture
k. Boles, John B. The Great Revivial 1787-1805. The Origins of the Southern
Evangelical Mind
l. Boles, John B. Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and
Religion in American South, 1740, 1870.
m. Patricia Y. Bonomi Under the Cape of Heaven
n. Thomas J. Little “Adding to the Church Such as Shall be Saved.” The Growth
and Influence of Evangelicalism in Colonial South Carolina.” In Jack P.
Greene, Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South
Carolina’s Plantation Society (2001).
o. David T. Morgan “The Great Awakening in South Carolina, 1740, 1775”
South Atlantic Quarterly 70 (1971) 595. ff.
p. Erskine Clarke Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South
Carolina Low Country 1690-1990. (1996).
q. Robert Calhoon Evangelicals and Conservatives in the Early South 1740-
1861. (1988).
r. Coy K. Johnston. Two Centuries of Lawtonville Baptists, 1775-1973. (1974).
s. Issacs Rhys
t. Already Printed Sources

2. Topic to look into:

a. Chart of Baptist Lineage
b. More info on Great Awakening and why Baptists felt moved to participate
(gradual growth of the baptists received a major boost during this time).
Which Baptists participated why and why not.
c. Effects of GA for Baptist. Acceptance of denominationalism. Made bapts
more mainstream. Some of the newer groups made Baptists seem less radical
d. Why they grew in the south (fresh soil, frontier, new souls to win)
e. Why Bapts. such avid patriots (British Gov’t meant Anglican Domination in
colonies)
 f. More Historiography (historians debate about origins of the Baptists)
g. My consensus as to the baptist origin
h. Explain and identify each sect of Baptists and their influence (Armenian,
Calvinist)
i. Define what Hart is and say I will be focusing on this one
j. More Content on Middle Colonies (so diverse therefore they tended to be
more tolerant, b/c they had to be to survive there. Therefore it isn’t suprising
that while they were being persecuted elsewhere they were most successful
with growth here.) “In addition to New England, where several viable
congregations sprang up, the Middle Colonies proved fertile ground…”
k. Need a paragraph on the viability of the middle colonies of for the Baptist
growth
l. Paragraph on Philadelphia/Penn
m. Show how popular the Revolution was to dissenting or separatist groups like
the Baptists, animosity toward the Anglican Church, which was the est church
to which they had to pay taxes in support of.
n. Paragraph of religious toleration in different regions. Along with democracy
and freedom came religious tolerance, not the mention the notion of a
democratic religion as well as an end to the established Anglican Church
o. Learn more about Slavery and Abolition during pre and post Revolutionary
periods. Which Baptists supported it and which didn’t, and give examples.

3. Download Google Desktop

4. Make Outline
5. Form Thesis!!!!