Religion and the radical Republican movement, 1860-1870 [electronic resource] /
Victor B. Howard.
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Moral Inevitability and Military Necessity; 2. Radical Christians and the Emancipation Proclamation; 3. The Election of 1862; 4. Rise Up a Man of God!; 5. The Election of 1864; 6. The Churches and Presidential Reconstruction; 7. The Christian Opposition to Johnson; 8. The Fourteenth Amendment and the Election of 1866; 9. Impeachment and the Churches; 10. Black Suffrage as a Moral Duty; 11. The Black Suffrage Referenda of 1867; 12. The Fifteenth Amendment; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I. Jk; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z.
Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only two states where legal slavery still existed when the thirteenth amendment was adopted by Congress. Despite its unique position, no historian before has attempted to tell the experience of blacks in the Commonwealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Victor B. Howard's Black Liberation in Kentucky fills this void in the history of slavery.
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Church and state--History--United States--19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Slavery and the church--United States. Slaves--Emancipation--United States. HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
United States--History--Religious aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--Politics and government--1861-1865. United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.