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Dundas, Steven L., author.
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Slavery -- United States.
Religion and state -- United States -- History.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Slavery -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Religion.
United States -- Politics and government.
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Mine eyes have seen ...
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Mine eyes have seen the glory : religion and the politics of race in the Civil War era and beyond / Steven L. Dundas.
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Dundas, Steven L., author.
[Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Subjects
Slavery -- United States.
Religion and state -- United States -- History.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Slavery -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Religion.
United States -- Politics and government.
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9781640124882 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
1640124888 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
xxiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface: The first duty -- America's original sin : slavery from 1619-1790 -- "A struggle to the death" : war cannot be separated from ideology, politics or religion -- "I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies" : religion ideology, and modern war -- "They shall be your bond-men forever" : human beings as property -- "The privilege of belonging to the superior race" : slavery and national expansion : the compromise of 1850 -- "A gross violation of a sacred pledge" : the Kansas-Nebraska act and collapse of the Whig Party -- "I will be heard!" : Religion, ideology and the abolitionist movement -- "An institution sanctioned by god" : southern religious support of slavery -- "The triumphs of Christianity rest, this very hour on slavery" -- "With god as our champion" : the confederate union of church and state -- "One after another they have closed the heavy doors upon him" : the Dred Scott decision -- "Portents hang on all the arches of the horizon, threatening to darken the land" : the bloody battle for Kansas -- "Mr. President, I wish to remind you that General Jackson is dead, sir." -- "Cuba must be ours" -- "The final kingdom has arisen, and the divine redeemer has come to reign." -- "The south will never submit to such humiliation" -- "Whom the gods intend to destroy, they first make mad" -- "The heather is on fire" : politics, religion and war -- "Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea, Jehovah hath triumphed, his people are free" : the emancipation proclamation -- "I knew what I was fighting for" : Black soldiers in the Civil War and after -- Reconstruction, and redemption : the failure to win the peace -- The failure of will : reconstruction's end and return to white rule -- "There was born in the South a new religion the noble confederacy and the lost cause" -- Epilogue: "I can't breathe" : the past is always present.
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"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is the epic story of how religion and racial ideology influenced slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and today's struggle for civil rights"--
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