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Christian Citizens - Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South (Hardcover)
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Christian Citizens - Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South (Hardcover)
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With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.
Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South,
Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew
on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political
imaginaries during and after Reconstruction. Focusing on everyday
Protestants in the Mississippi River Valley, Jemison scours their
biblical thinking and religious attitudes toward race. She argues
that the evangelical groups that dominated this portion of the
South shaped contesting visions of black and white rights. Black
evangelicals saw the argument for their identities as Christians
and as fully endowed citizens supported by their readings of both
the Bible and U.S. law. The Bible, as they saw it, prohibited
racial hierarchy and Amendments 13, 14, and 15 advanced equal
rights. Countering this, white evangelicals continued to emphasize
a hierarchical paternalistic order that, shorn of earlier
justifications for placing whites in charge of blacks, now fell
into the defense of an increasingly violent white supremacist
social order. They defined aspects of Christian identity so as to
suppress black equality - even praying, as Jemison documents, for
wisdom in how to deny voting rights to blacks. This religious
culture has played into remarkably long-lasting patterns of
inequality and segregation.
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