Preachers, slavery, and antebellum politics -- The power and place of the wartime northern ministry -- Partisanship and potential damage: why Americans feared "disloyal" preachers -- The assault on disloyalty in the northern ministry -- What the preachers thought: political preachers in the north -- The confederate ministry -- Confederate and unionist religious life under the gun -- Black church leaders and politics in the Civil War.
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