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By Luke E. Harlow

This e-book sheds new gentle at the position of faith within the nineteenth-century slavery debates. In it, Luke E. Harlow argues that ongoing clash over the that means of Christian 'orthodoxy' limited the political and cultural horizons on hand for defenders and rivals of yankee slavery. The principal locus of those debates used to be Kentucky, a border slave nation with a long-standing antislavery presence. even supposing white Kentuckians famously solid themselves as moderates within the interval and remained with the Union throughout the Civil battle, their spiritual values confirmed no moderation at the slavery query. while the warfare eventually introduced emancipation, white Kentuckians discovered themselves in lockstep with the remainder of the accomplice South. Racist faith hence lead the way for the making of Kentucky's accomplice reminiscence of the battle, in addition to a deeply entrenched white Democratic celebration within the state.

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