Research Guides: Naming Honors Research Guide: George F. Pierce

Resources

George G. Smith, The Life and Times of George Foster Pierce: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Smith, 1888)
“The Southern Methodist Church and the Proslavery Argument,” The Journal of Southern History 32, no. 3 (Purifoy, Aug. 1966)
"THE GOLDEN ERA: IN THE LIFE OF BISHOP PIERCE," The Atlanta Constitution, February 3, 1884
George Foster Pierce papers
Microfilm copy of the papers of George Foster Pierce, Methodist bishop and president of Emory College, which include a diary and a pocket record book.
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family (Auslander, 2011)
The book examines the story of an enslaved woman named Catherine “Miss Kitty” Andrew Boyd, her enslaver Bishop James Osgood Andrew, and the schism of the Methodist Episcopal Church between North and South. Key players in this story are two of the people in question: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet and George Foster Peirce.