By Charles F. Irons

ISBN-10: 0807831948

ISBN-13: 9780807831946

ISBN-10: 0807858773

ISBN-13: 9780807858776

within the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals usually prayed, sang, and worshipped jointly. even supposing white evangelicals claimed religious fellowship with these of African descent, they still emerged because the most appropriate defenders of race-based slavery.

As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' rules approximately slavery grew at once out in their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the biggest slaveholding nation and the fireplace of the southern evangelical flow, this publication attracts from church files, denominational newspapers, slave narratives, and personal letters and diaries to light up the dynamic courting among whites and blacks in the evangelical fold. Irons finds that after whites theorized approximately their ethical duties towards slaves, they concept first in their relationships with bondmen of their personal church buildings. hence, African American evangelicals inadvertently formed the character of the proslavery argument. once they selected which church buildings to hitch, used the strategies manage for church self-discipline, rejected colonization, or equipped quasi-independent congregations, for instance, black churchgoers spurred their white coreligionists to additional enhance the spiritual security of slavery.

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