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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787478803321

Autore

Howard Victor B

Titolo

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870 [[electronic resource] /] / Victor B. Howard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

0-8131-5615-7

0-8131-8181-X

0-8131-6144-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Disciplina

973.7

Soggetti

Church and state - United States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

Slavery and the church - United States

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

United States Politics and government 1865-1877

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Religious aspects

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Moral Inevitability and Military Necessity; 2. Radical Christians and the Emancipation Proclamation; 3. The Election of 1862; 4. Rise Up a Man of God!; 5. The Election of 1864; 6. The Churches and Presidential Reconstruction; 7. The Christian Opposition to Johnson; 8. The Fourteenth Amendment and the Election of 1866; 9. Impeachment and the Churches; 10. Black Suffrage as a Moral Duty; 11. The Black Suffrage Referenda of 1867; 12. The Fifteenth Amendment; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I

JK; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's



slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only two states where legal slavery still existed when the thirteenth amendment was adopted by Congress. Despite its unique position, no historian before has attempted to tell the experience of blacks in the Commonwealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction.Victor B. Howard's  Black Liberation in Kentucky fills this void in the history of slavery