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Christian citizens : reading the Bible in Black and White in the postemancipation South / Elizabeth L. Jemison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jemison, Elizabeth L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations.
- Protestants.
- Religion and politics.
- History.
- Evangelicalism.
- Church history.
- Mississippi River Valley--Church history--19th century.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Evangelicalism--Mississippi River Valley.
- Religion and politics--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.
- Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Protestants--Mississippi River Valley.
- Mississippi River Valley--Race relations.
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--19th century.
- Bible.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 225 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- 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:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Emancipation: Christian Identity amid Slavery's End, 1863-1866
- ch. Two Reconstruction: Christian Citizenship and Political Equality, 1867-1874
- ch. Three Redemption: Black Rights and Violent Family Order, 1875-1879
- ch. Four Paternalism Reborn: New Southern Histories and Racial Violence, 1880-1889
- ch. Five Segregation: Violent Order in a Christian Civilization, 1890-1900.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469659688
- 1469659689
- 9781469659695
- 1469659697
- OCLC:
- 1147884161
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