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Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord [electronic resource] : Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870 / John B. Boles, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slaveholders--Religious life--Southern States.
- Slaveholders.
- Enslaved persons--Religious life--Southern States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slavery--Southern States--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery and the church--Southern States.
- Slavery and the church.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Church history--19th century.
- Southern States--Church history--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Masters and slaves in the house of the Lord.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [192]-242.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-0187-5
- 0-8131-4879-0
- OCLC:
- 570589609
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