Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813148790
,
9780813148793
Inhalt:
Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized together, were subject to the same church discipline, and were buried in the same cemeteries. What was the black perception of white-controlled religious ceremonies? How did whites reconcile their faith with their racism? Why did freedmen, as soon as possible after the Civil War, withdraw from the biraci
Inhalt:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Planters and Slaves in the Great Awakening; 2 Biracial Fellowship in Antebellum Baptist Churches; 3 Religion in Amite County, Mississippi, 1800-1861; 4 Black and White Christians in Florida, 1822-1861; 5 Planters and Slave Religion in the Deep South; 6 Slaves and Southern Catholicism; 7 Slaves and White Churches in Confederate Georgia; 8 After Apocalypse, Moses; Notes; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813116464
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Boles, John B Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord : Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870 Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 ISBN 9780813116464
Sprache:
Englisch
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