Author:
Jemison, Elizabeth L. author.
ImprintChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Descriptionxiii, 225 pages ; 25 cm
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.
Note:"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.
