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Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia

Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840

by Randolph Ferguson Scully

  • Hardback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • 16.1 x 23.4 x 2.8 cm

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"Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia" provides a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the complex, biracial history of the Baptist movement in southeastern Virginia. This region and its religious history became a subject of intense national scrutiny in the wake of the 1831 revolt led by the enslaved preacher and prophet Nat Turner. But by the time Turner led his fellow slaves on their deadly march across the fields and swamps of Southampton County, Virginia's religious landscape had already been shaped by more than eighty years of conflict about the implications of evangelical faith for the evolving cluster of interrelated ideas about race, slavery, household, family, and patriarchy that constituted the state's social order.For both black and white Virginians, evangelical discourses of authority, community, and meaning provided the material for a wide variety of interpretations of Christianity's social and spiritual message during the Revolutionary and early national eras.Even as some white church leaders sought to institutionalize a white, paternalist vision of evangelicalism's meanings, rapidly increasing black participation in Baptist congregations in the early nineteenth century provided fertile ground for new, alternative interpretations of Baptist concepts and practices.The Turner rebellion brought these diverse subterranean currents of dissent to the surface in ways that upset the delicate balance between white institutional authority and black spiritual independence that had evolved in the previous decades. Reaction to the uprising intensified the trend toward separation and segregation of black and white religion in the antebellum period and had powerful, lasting effects on race relations and religious culture in America.
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  • Author

    Randolph Ferguson Scully

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Virginia Press

  • Published

    September 2008

  • Weight

    613g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.4 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813927381

  • ISBN-10

    0813927382

  • Eden Code

    1237762

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