Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction A Church with Freedom but no Money -- Cash and Credibility - The Transatlantic delegation -- Chapter 1 A Delegation Warmly Received -- Fertile Ground -- Princeton and far beyond -- Seeing slavery and hearing from the Presbyterians -- The Wages of Iniquity? -- Chapter 2 The Elephant in the Room -- Tidings from America -- Adulation and Omission -- The Glasgow Emancipation Society stirs the potand Humble Overtures break the silence -- Dr Candlish takes the reins -- The Committee reports that everyone was against slavery -- Chapter 3 Chalmers and Smyth - Tensions across the Atlantic. -- A blast from the deep South -- The cautious abolitionist -- Chalmers under pressure -- A careful compromise in The Witness -- Chapter 4 Keeping a Lid on the Volcano -- The Glasgow Abolitionists enter the fray again -- Sparks fly and die at the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh -- The 1845 General Assembly - discussion stifled for the sake of 'unity' -- Letters to and from America -- Chapter 5 'Douglass has blawn sic a flame' -- Self-liberated and strong -- Send Back the Money -- Temperance and Opposition -- In full cry -- Storming the City Crags with 'Quakeresses' -- The flame burns -- Chapter 6 War, Drink, the Sabbath and the 1846 Assembly -- A loose cannon among the abolitionists -- The Hawick Alcoholics -- The 1846 Assembly: A debate about no debate -- A Veteran Abolitionist Enters the Fray -- Chapter 7 Ballads and Broadsheets -- The Cursed Bawbees -- Making Money on Both Sides -- The Stain of Slaveholders' Money -- The end result -- Chapter 8 The Irish take a Firmer Stand -- Douglass in Ireland -- The native son returns -- Libel and Defamation -- Assemblies and letters to America -- Chapter 9 Evangelicals and Abolitionists - Houses Divided -- The Evangelical Alliance.

Douglass Returns to Scotland but Emancipationists Divide -- The Free Church Anti-Slavery Society - a late entry on the scene -- Chapter 10 The Last Battles and Hunting 'the brave Macbeth' -- The 1847 General Assembly -- Strictures, Pamphlets, and another Assembly -- The pamphlets of James Macbeth -- Serious charges against the minister of Lauriston -- Chapter 11 A Passing Storm in a Teacupor the Shape of Things to Come? -- Unity and Division -- The ethical issues - twentieth-century parallels -- Scottish public awareness and the next rounds -- Notes -- Introduction: A Church with Freedom but no Money -- Chapter 1: A Delegation Warmly Received -- Chapter 2: The Elephant in the Room -- Chapter 3: Chalmers and Smyth - Tensions across the Atlantic -- Chapter 4: Keeping a Lid on the Volcano -- Chapter 5: 'Douglass has blawn sic a flame' -- Chapter 6: War, Drink, the Sabbath, and the 1846 Assembly -- Chapter 7: Ballads and Broadsheets -- Chapter 8: The Irish Take a Firmer Stand -- Chapter 9: Evangelicals and Abolitionists - Houses Divided -- Chapter 10: The Last Battles and Hunting 'the Brave Macbeth' -- Chapter 11:A Passing Storm in a Teacup or the Shape of Things to Come? -- Bibliography -- Newspapers, Journals and Collections -- Documents -- Books and Pamphlets before 1865 -- Books, Articles and Pamphlets after 1865.