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Author:

Jemison, Elizabeth L., author.

Title:

Christian citizens : reading the Bible in Black and White in the postemancipation South / Elizabeth L. Jemison.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xiii, 225 pages : map ; 25 cm

Subject:

Mississippi River Valley--Church history--19th century.
Evangelicalism--Mississippi River Valley.
Religion and politics--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.
Race relations--Christianity.--Christianity.
Protestants--Mississippi River Valley.
Mississippi River Valley--Race relations.
Bible--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Afterlives of Proslavery Christianity -- Emancipation: Christian Identity amid Slavery's End, 1863-1866 -- Reconstruction: Christian Citizenship and Political Equality, 1867-1874 -- Redemption: Black Rights and Violent Family Order, 1875-1879 -- Paternalism Reborn: New Southern Histories and Racial Violence, 1880-1889 -- Segregation: Violent Order in a Christian Civilization, 1890-1900 -- Conclusion: Family Values and Racial Order.

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.

ISBN:

1469659697
9781469659695
1469659689
9781469659688

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1147884161

LCCN:

2020015403

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)