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Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky 1830-1880 by Luke Harlow
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1107000890
ISBN-13
9781107000896
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176384912
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
258 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880
Subject
Slavery, United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Religion, Politics & State
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science, History
Series
Cambridge Studies on the American South Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2013-044709
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[I] have no doubt that [this] will make a big splash in a number of fields, including religious history, the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and southern history broadly construed." Heath Carter, Religion in American History (usreligion.blogspot.co.uk), "By delving into the religious roots of both proslavery and antislavery adherents, Harlow reveals how the two opposite sides were united in racist theology by the post-war period ... Harlow's work is a welcome addition to Kentucky history, religious history, and the literature on the issues of race and slavery in the nineteenth century." Andrea S. Watkins, Civil War Book Review, Advance praise: 'Luke Harlow's carefully researched and gracefully argued book reveals the importance of religion - an often-overlooked subject - in the racial politics of the Civil War era. Religion, as Harlow shows, explains Kentucky's transformation from a state that favored the Union to one identified with the Confederacy and white supremacy after the Civil War. Harlow's analysis, however, is about more than Kentucky. In his skilled hands, the state exposes broad national dynamics that explain the limits of change during Reconstruction more generally.' Laura F. Edwards, Duke University, "Harlow's book adds to a wealth of careful studies of the relationship between nineteenth-century evangelicalism and slavery. It is a significant virtue of [this book] that he persists with his narrative beyond the war's end into the Reconstruction years." John Turner, Patheos (patheos.com), "Luke Harlow's Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 has taken a story that specialists have come to know - that white Kentuckians came late to their embrace of Confederate culture, after the failure of that political state - and has used it to reveal connections between evangelical religious, racial, and political thought in nineteenth-century America on both sides of the Civil War that have never before been explored so deeply ... a signal contribution to the field ... Harlow provides a needed postscript to the stories of evangelical conflict over slavery, demonstrating how ideas from the antebellum period are carried over into the postbellum one. Harlow is able to see this genealogy both because he is exquisitely attuned to the theological repartee of his subjects and because he takes on a distinct temporal frame, tracing connections and changes between antebellum and postbellum belief systems in a way that many other historians looking at the intersection of race, slavery, and Christianity have eschewed." Journal of the Civil War EraChristianity have eschewed." Journal of the Civil War EraChristianity have eschewed." Journal of the Civil War EraChristianity have eschewed." Journal of the Civil War Era, "The legacies of slavery are still with us, and they include the assumption that whiteness is somehow close to godliness. Works like Harlow's ... give us food for thought at a time when we need more sustenance to keep fighting and hoping that God will make right, for might has failed to do so." The Christian Century, "... a welcome contribution ... persuasively argued and well-documented ... Harlow's study answers recent calls to integrate religion into political narratives, and it exemplifies the valuable insights gained by doing so." Journal of American History, "Writing in clear, crisp prose, and drawing upon a rich arsenal of primary sources, including periodicals, archival materials, and primary texts, Harlow correctly notes that the commonwealth 'stood at the center of the nineteenth-century American debate over race, slavery, and abolition'." Ohio Valley History, "Harlow makes a significant contribution to our developing understanding of the unfortunate historical relationship between evangelical Christianity, slavery, and race throughout America ... [A] masterful telling ... Each assertion and point of analysis is amply documented, and the end result is both refreshingly source-based and absolutely convincing. In every way that matters, Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 is a seamless monograph." American Historical Review, "Harlow's book joins a small but significant literature recasting the relationship between Christianity and politics in the nineteenth century. He masterfully shows how religion can be a vital field of inquiry for unraveling the political peculiarities of the era ... Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880, is a very fine book richly deserving a place on the shelf any student of the nineteenth-century South." Journal of Southern History, "... with uncommon skill, intelligence, and sensitivity, [Harlow] has deconstructed and re-centered the arguments of conservative evangelicals to show that for all their differences both antislavery gradualists and proslavery advocates worked from a common theological foundation." Journal of Southern Religion
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
976.903
Table Of Content
Introduction; 1. The challenge of immediate emancipationism: the origins of abolitionist heresy, 1829-35; 2. Heresy and schism: the uneasy gradualist-proslavery ecclesiastical alliance, 1836-45; 3. The limits of Christian conservative antislavery: white supremacy and the failure of emancipationism, 1845-59; 4. The abolitionist threat: religious orthodoxy and proslavery unionism on the eve of civil war, 1859-61; 5. Competing visions of political theology: Kentucky Presbyterianism's civil war, 1861-2; 6. The end of neutrality: emancipation, political religion, and the triumph of abolitionist heterodoxy, 1862-5; 7. Kentucky's redemption: confederate religion and white democratic domination, 1865-74; Epilogue: the antebellum past for the postwar future.
Synopsis
This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. In it, Luke E. Harlow argues that ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian "orthodoxy" constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central locus of these debates was Kentucky, a border slave state with a long-standing antislavery presence. Although white Kentuckians famously cast themselves as moderates in the period and remained with the Union during the Civil War, their religious values showed no moderation on the slavery question. When the war ultimately brought emancipation, white Kentuckians found themselves in lockstep with the rest of the Confederate South. Racist religion thus paved the way for the making of Kentucky's Confederate memory of the war, as well as a deeply entrenched white Democratic Party in the state., This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery., This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central locus of these debates was Kentucky, a border slave state with a long-standing antislavery presence. Although white Kentuckians famously cast themselves as moderates in the period and remained with the Union during the Civil War, their religious values showed no moderation on the slavery question. When the war ultimately brought emancipation, white Kentuckians found themselves in lockstep with the rest of the Confederate South. Racist religion thus paved the way for the making of Kentucky's Confederate memory of the war, as well as a deeply entrenched white Democratic Party in the state.
LC Classification Number
E445.K5 H37 2014
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