This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the
nineteenth-century slavery debates. In it, Luke E. Harlow argues
that ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian orthodoxy
constrained the political and cultural horizons available for
defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central locus of
these debates was Kentucky, a border slave state with a
long-standing antislavery presence. Although white Kentuckians
famously cast themselves as moderates in the period and remained
with the Union during the Civil War, their religious values showed
no moderation on the slavery question. When the war ultimately
brought emancipation, white Kentuckians found themselves in
lockstep with the rest of the Confederate South. Racist religion
thus paved the way for the making of Kentucky's Confederate memory
of the war, as well as a deeply entrenched white Democratic Party
in the state."
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