Luke E. Harlow

Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book places religious debates about slavery at the centre of American political culture before, during and after the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781107000896
• ISBN-10: 1107000890
• Artikelnr.: 40625860

Autorenporträt

Luke E. Harlow is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His published work has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, Ohio Valley History and the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. He is the co-editor of Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The challenge of immediate emancipationism: the origins of
abolitionist heresy, 1829-35; 2. Heresy and schism: the uneasy
gradualist-proslavery ecclesiastical alliance, 1836-45; 3. The limits of
Christian conservative antislavery: white supremacy and the failure of
emancipationism, 1845-59; 4. The abolitionist threat: religious orthodoxy
and proslavery unionism on the eve of civil war, 1859-61; 5. Competing
visions of political theology: Kentucky Presbyterianism's civil war,
1861-2; 6. The end of neutrality: emancipation, political religion, and the
triumph of abolitionist heterodoxy, 1862-5; 7. Kentucky's redemption:
confederate religion and white democratic domination, 1865-74; Epilogue:
the antebellum past for the postwar future.