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Author Irons, Charles F. (Charles Frederick)

Title The origins of proslavery Christianity : white and black evangelicals in colonial and antebellum Virginia / by Charles F. Irons.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 366 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description data file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-360) and index.
Contents Fishers of men, 1680-1792 -- Growing pains, 1792-1815 -- The flourishing of biracial Christianity, 1815-1831 -- The spiritual challenge of Nat Turner, 1831-1835 -- The sectional church, 1835-1856 -- Reluctant, Evangelical Confederates, 1856-1861 -- Epilogue, exodus, 1861-1870.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Summary Even though black and white evangelicals often worshipped together, white evangelicals emerged as defenders of race-based slavery. Focusing on Virginia, this book argues that white evangelical ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals.
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Subject Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Influence.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Influence.
Slavery and the church -- Virginia -- History.
Slavery and the church.
Virginia.
History.
Slavery and the church -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States.
Enslaved persons -- Religious life -- Virginia.
Enslaved persons -- Religious life.
Enslaved persons.
African Americans -- Virginia -- Religion.
African Americans.
Religion.
Enslaved persons -- Religious life -- Southern States.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Religion.
Evangelicalism -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History.
Evangelicalism -- Political aspects.
Evangelicalism.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Irons, Charles F. (Charles Frederick). Origins of proslavery Christianity. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007044530 (OCoLC)181142295
ISBN 9781469604640 (electronic book)
1469604647 (electronic book)
9780807888896 (electronic book)
0807888893 (electronic book)
9780807831946 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807831948 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807858776 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0807858773 (paperback ; alkaline paper)