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Genre/Form: | Church history Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth L Jemison |
ISBN: | 9781469659688 1469659689 9781469659695 1469659697 |
OCLC Number: | 1147884161 |
Description: | xiii, 225 pages : map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Afterlives of Proslavery Christianity -- Emancipation: Christian Identity amid Slavery's End, 1863-1866 -- Reconstruction: Christian Citizenship and Political Equality, 1867-1874 -- Redemption: Black Rights and Violent Family Order, 1875-1879 -- Paternalism Reborn: New Southern Histories and Racial Violence, 1880-1889 -- Segregation: Violent Order in a Christian Civilization, 1890-1900 -- Conclusion: Family Values and Racial Order. |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth L. Jemison. |
Abstract:
With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction.
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A thorough exploration of how Black and white Christians drew on their faith in the aftermath of the Civil War to make radically divergent claims about an ideal political order. . . . [an] enlightening investigation." -Publishers Weekly Read more...

