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After slavery was abolished how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the countrys institutions A schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church South To a remarkable degree the M E Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination