Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870

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John B. Boles
University Press of Kentucky, 1. jan. 1988 - 257 strani

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 biracial churches and establish black denominations? This book is essential reading for historians of religion, the South, and the Afro-American experience.

 

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Introduction
1
Planters and Slaves in the Great Awakening
19
Biracial Fellowship in Antebellum Baptist Churches
37
Religion in Amite County Mississippi 18001861
58
Black and White Christians in Florida 18221861
81
Planters and Slave Religion in the Deep South
99
Slaves and Southern Catholicism
127
Slaves and White Churches in Confederate Georgia
153
After Apocalypse Moses
173
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John B. Boles is William P. Hobby Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of numerous books including A Companion to the American South, The South through Time: A History of an American Region, The Great Revival, and Black Southerners, 1619-1869.

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