03053cam a2200505Mi 4500 ocn609863442 OCoLC 20200709055335.0 m d cr n|| 100427s2008 ncu o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP YDXCP OCLCQ N$T 9780807888896 (electronic bk.) 0807888893 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)609863442 357233 (N$T) E445.V8 REL 067070 bisacsh 241.67509755 N$TA Irons, Charles F. Origins of Proslavery Christianity [electronic resource] : White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 1 online resource (381 p.) Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Chief Cornerstone; One: Fishers of Men, 16801792; Two: Growing Pains, 17921815; Three: The Flourishing of Biracial Christianity, 18151831; Four: The Spiritual Challenge of Nat Turner, 18311835; Five: The Sectional Church, 18351856; Six: Reluctant, Evangelical Confederates, 18561861; Epilogue. Exodus, 18611870; Appendix A. Evangelical Virginians in 1790 and 1850; Appendix B. Distribution of Virginia Evangelicals in 1860; Appendix C. Church Governance; Notes; Bibliography; Index. In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery. As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the largest slaveholding state and the hearth of the southern evangelical movement, this book draws from church records, denominational newspapers, slave. Description based on print version record. Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 Influence. Slavery and the church Virginia History. Slavery and the church Southern States History. Slaves Religious life Virginia. African Americans Virginia Religion. Slaves Religious life Southern States. African Americans Southern States Religion. Evangelicalism Political aspects Southern States History. RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: 9780807831946 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=515688 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=357233 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL515688 YBP Library Services YANK 3151662 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50222 50222