TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irons,Charles F.
TI  - Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
SN  - 9780807888896 (electronic bk.)
AV  - E445.V8 
U1  - 241.67509755 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Turner, Nat,
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - Virginia
KW  - History
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Religious life
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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