| 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. |
| Abstract |
"With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction. Focusing on everyday Protestants in the Mississippi River Valley, Jemison scours their biblical thinking and religious attitudes toward race. She argues that the evangelical groups that dominated this portion of the South shaped contesting visions of black and white rights"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Church history. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020015403 |
| ISBN | 9781469659688 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1469659689 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9781469659695 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1469659697 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
