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Religion, race, and the making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880
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Religion, race, and the making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 / Luke E. Harlow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
ISBN
9781107000896 (hardback)
1107000890 (hardback)
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
xiv, 242 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2014
Series
Cambridge studies on the American South
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index.
Contents
The challenge of immediate emancipationism, the origins of abolitionist heresy, 1829-1835
Heresy and schism: the uneasy gradualist-proslavery ecclesiastical alliance, 1836-1845
The limits of Christian conservative antislavery: white supremacy and the failure of emancipationism, 1845-1859
The abolitionist threat: religious orthodoxy and proslavery unionism on the eve of Civil War, 1859-1861
Competing visions of political theology: Kentucky Presbyterianism's Civil War, 1861-1862
The end of neutrality: emancipation, political religion, and the triumph of abolitionist heterodoxy, 1862-1865
Kentucky's redemption: Confederate religion and white democratic domination, 1865-1874
Epilogue: the antebellum past for the postwar future.
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