The Danville Quarterly Review

The Danville Quarterly Review
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2022-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375056516

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union, 1861-1869

The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union, 1861-1869
Author: Lewis George Vander Velde
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 1932
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674701519

This book deals with the history of the particular American religious sect which, because of its large and varied membership, its intellectual vigor, and the part played by its clergy in shaping public thought, affords the richest field for a study of the influence of religious organizations upon American life. The story of the struggle of the Old School Presbyterian leaders to choose between their desire to avoid a break in their church and their feeling that it was their duty to voice their loyalty to the Union forms an interesting and illuminating commentary on the problems of the troublous times of the War of the Rebellion. The minor Presbyterian groups played varying parts, but always occupied more than their proportionate share of public attention because each met its own problems with a characteristically Presbyterian individuality. Professor Vander Velde's monograph is important not only for American religious history but also for the fact that it illustrates how closely Church and State were related during the Civil War period.

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Author: Free Public Library of Jersey City
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Total Pages: 658
Release: 1892
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Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880

Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880
Author: Luke E. Harlow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139915800

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.