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Title Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord : Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Slavery and the church -- Southern States
Slavery -- Southern States -- History
Enslaved persons -- Religious life -- Southern States
Slaveholders -- Religious life -- Southern States
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Race relations
Slaveholders -- Religious life
Slavery
Slavery and the church
Enslaved persons -- Religious life
SUBJECT Southern States -- Church history -- 18th century
Southern States -- Church history -- 19th century
Southern States -- Race relations
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Boles, John B., editor
ISBN 9780813148793
0813148790
Other Titles Masters and slaves in the house of the Lord