| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Afterlives of Proslavery Christianity -- Chapter One: Emancipation: Christian Identity amid Slavery's End, 1863-1866 -- Chapter Two: Reconstruction: Christian Citizenship and Political Equality, 1867-1874 -- Chapter Three: Redemption: Black Rights and Violent Family Order, 1875-1879 -- Chapter Four: Paternalism Reborn: New Southern Histories and Racial Violence, 1880-1889 -- Chapter Five: Segregation: Violent Order in a Christian Civilization, 1890-1900 -- Conclusion: Family Values and Racial Order -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A |
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B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 19th century.
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Bible. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Bible. |
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Mississippi River Valley -- Church history -- 19th century.
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Mississippi River Valley. |
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Church history. |
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Evangelicalism -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Evangelicalism. |
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Religion and politics -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
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Religion and politics. |
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Protestants -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Protestants. |
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Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jemison, Elizabeth L. Christian citizens. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020 9781469659688 (DLC) 2020015403 (OCoLC)1147884161 |
| ISBN |
9781469659718 (electronic book) |
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1469659719 (electronic book) |
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9781469659688 |
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1469659689 |
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9781469659695 |
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1469659697 |
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