Über dieses Produkt

Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807858773

ISBN-139780807858776

eBay Product ID (ePID)63848811

Product Key Features

Book TitleOrigins of Proslavery Christianity : White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicChristianity / Protestant, Christianity / History, Christian Church / History, United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year2008

FeaturesNew Edition

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion, Social Science, History

AuthorCharles F. Irons

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19.3 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-044530

ReviewsA carefully argued, impressively researched, persuasive book. . . . Convincing and valuable.-- Church History, Suggest[s] useful ways of thinking about blacks as active agents in the civil and religious debates of the day.-- Georgia Historical Quarterly, "This excellent study reflects the author's considerable research into primary sources ranging from church records to manuscript collections and his mastery of the voluminous secondary literature. . . . A superb first book." --Catholic Historical Review, A fresh and valuable perspective. . . . An important book with valuable research and insights. . . . Will be of great use to scholars and graduate students in the field. -- Journal of Southern History, "Suggest[s] useful ways of thinking about blacks as active agents in the civil and religious debates of the day."-- Georgia Historical Quarterly, "A fresh and valuable perspective. . . . An important book with valuable research and insights. . . . Will be of great use to scholars and graduate students in the field."-- Journal of Southern History, "Suggest[s] useful ways of thinking about blacks as active agents in the civil and religious debates of the day." —Georgia Historical Quarterly, A fresh and valuable perspective. . . . An important book with valuable research and insights. . . . Will be of great use to scholars and graduate students in the field.-- Journal of Southern History, "Well researched and carefully nuanced. . . . The great success of this book . . . is Irons's demonstration that religion was just as important as race, class or gender in shaping the antebellum South." —The Christian Century, "A carefully argued, impressively researched, persuasive book. . . . Convincing and valuable." -- Church History, "A fresh and valuable perspective. . . . An important book with valuable research and insights. . . . Will be of great use to scholars and graduate students in the field." - Journal of Southern History, Brings complexity to a history often reduced to a simple morality tale of 'churches in captivity' to white supremacy.-- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, "This excellent study reflects the author's considerable research into primary sources ranging from church records to manuscript collections and his mastery of the voluminous secondary literature. . . . A superb first book." - Catholic Historical Review, "Makes useful contributions to a number of distinct historiographical discussions, including those about Revolutionary-era evangelicalism and slavery, the colonization movement, and the role evangelicals played during the secession crisis and in the Confederacy. . . . Irons shows that Christianity's inherent flexibility and its emphasis on the next world more than on this one made proslavery Christianity possible." - Civil War Book Review, This excellent study reflects the author's considerable research into primary sources ranging from church records to manuscript collections and his mastery of the voluminous secondary literature. . . . A superb first book.-- Catholic Historical Review, "This excellent study reflects the author's considerable research into primary sources ranging from church records to manuscript collections and his mastery of the voluminous secondary literature. . . . A superb first book." -- Catholic Historical Review, "Brings complexity to a history often reduced to a simple morality tale of 'churches in captivity' to white supremacy."-- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Brings complexity to a history often reduced to a simple morality tale of 'churches in captivity' to white supremacy. -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, This excellent study reflects the author's considerable research into primary sources ranging from church records to manuscript collections and his mastery of the voluminous secondary literature. . . . A superb first book. -- Catholic Historical Review, "Well researched and carefully nuanced. . . . The great success of this book . . . is Irons's demonstration that religion was just as important as race, class or gender in shaping the antebellum South." - The Christian Century, "Suggest[s] useful ways of thinking about blacks as active agents in the civil and religious debates of the day." -- Georgia Historical Quarterly, "A carefully argued, impressively researched, persuasive book. . . . Convincing and valuable." - Church History, "Makes useful contributions to a number of distinct historiographical discussions, including those about Revolutionary-era evangelicalism and slavery, the colonization movement, and the role evangelicals played during the secession crisis and in the Confederacy. . . . Irons shows that Christianity's inherent flexibility and its emphasis on the next world more than on this one made proslavery Christianity possible." —Civil War Book Review, "A fresh and valuable perspective. . . . An important book with valuable research and insights. . . . Will be of great use to scholars and graduate students in the field." -- Journal of Southern History, Suggest[s] useful ways of thinking about blacks as active agents in the civil and religious debates of the day. -- Georgia Historical Quarterly, "Brings complexity to a history often reduced to a simple morality tale of 'churches in captivity' to white supremacy." -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, "Suggest[s] useful ways of thinking about blacks as active agents in the civil and religious debates of the day." - Georgia Historical Quarterly, "A carefully argued, impressively researched, persuasive book. . . . Convincing and valuable." —Church History, A carefully argued, impressively researched, persuasive book. . . . Convincing and valuable. -- Church History, "This excellent study reflects the author's considerable research into primary sources ranging from church records to manuscript collections and his mastery of the voluminous secondary literature. . . . A superb first book."-- Catholic Historical Review, "A carefully argued, impressively researched, persuasive book. . . . Convincing and valuable."-- Church History

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal241/.67509755

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisIn the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery. As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the largest slaveholding state and the hearth of the southern evangelical movement, this book draws from church records, denominational newspapers, slave narratives, and private letters and diaries to illuminate the dynamic relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. Irons reveals that when whites theorized about their moral responsibilities toward slaves, they thought first of their relationships with bondmen in their own churches. Thus, African American evangelicals inadvertently shaped the nature of the proslavery argument. When they chose which churches to join, used the procedures set up for church discipline, rejected colonization, or built quasi-independent congregations, for example, black churchgoers spurred their white coreligionists to further develop the religious defense of slavery., In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery.As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the largest slaveholding state and the hearth of the southern evangelical movement, this book draws from church records, denominational newspapers, slave narratives, and private letters and diaries to illuminate the dynamic relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. Irons reveals that when whites theorized about their moral responsibilities toward slaves, they thought first of their relationships with bondmen in their own churches. Thus, African American evangelicals inadvertently shaped the nature of the proslavery argument. When they chose which churches to join, used the procedures set up for church discipline, rejected colonization, or built quasi-independent congregations, for example, black churchgoers spurred their white coreligionists to further develop the religious defense of slavery., Argues that white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. This book draws from church records and slave narratives to illuminate the relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. It argues that black evangelicals inadvertently shaped the proslavery argument.

LC Classification NumberE445.V8.I76 2008