The End of Days : African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation /

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For four million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understandi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harper, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Freed persons > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Religion.
African Americans.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
RELIGION > Faith.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Affranchis > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Religion.
Freed persons > Southern States > Social conditions.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
African Americans > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Southern States > Religion.
United States.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : His plan for them was clear
  • A nation born in a day
  • Redemption and exile
  • Exodus and jubilee
  • A jeremiad
  • A table prepared by our enemies
  • Epilogue : some great plan.

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