Populist Saints: B. T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodists

Tells the story of B T and Ellen Roberts' lives, recounting their critique of powerful elites and illuminating the "crisis of Methodism" that gave rise to the Free Methodist Church. This work views key 19th-century currents and events through the lives of these two figures, who taught a "holy populism" of simplicity, justice for the common people.