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A Consuming Fire de Eugene D Genovese

A Consuming Fire

Autor Eugene D Genovese
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2009
Focuses on the religious dimensions of the South's response to slavery, the Civil War, and emancipation. This book shows how southern pro slavery theorists, both clergy and lay, struggled with the intellectual and theological quandaries posed by slavery.
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ISBN-13: 9780820333441
ISBN-10: 0820333441
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: University of Georgia Press

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The fall of the Confederacy proved traumatic for a people who fought with the belief that God was on their side. Yet, as Eugene D. Genovese demonstrates in A Consuming Fire, Southern Christians continued to trust in the Lord's will. The churches had long defended "Southern rights" and insisted that slavery had divine sanction, but they also warned that God was testing His people, who must bring slavery up to biblical standards or face His wrath. For proslavery spokesmen, "Christian slavery" offered the South, indeed the world, the best hope for the vital work of preparation for the Kingdom, but they acknowledged that the slavery practiced in the South left much to be desired. The reform campaign of prominent ministers and church laymen featured demands to secure slave marriages and family life, to repeal the laws against slave literacy, and to punish cruel masters. A Consuming Fire analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, and ultimate failure of the struggle for reform and the nature and significance of Southern Christian orthodoxy and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.

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A leading historian examines the white Southern Christian response to slavery, military defeat, and emancipation. "A Consuming Fire" analyzes the strength, weakness, and failure of the struggle for reform and the nature and significance of Southern Christian orthodoxy and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.

Notă biografică

EUGENE D. GENOVESE (1930-2012) was one of the most influential, and controversial, historians of his time. He was the author of several books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll, for which he won the Bancroft Prize; The Southern Tradition; and The Southern Front.