ISBN:
9780807174821
,
0807174823
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 295 Seiten
,
24 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Scott, Sean A. [Rezension von: Matsui, John H., 1981-, Millenarian dreams and racial nightmares] 2022
Series Statement:
Conflicting worlds
DDC:
973.788
Keywords:
African Americans
;
Religious aspects/Protestant churches
;
History
;
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
;
Religious aspects
;
Protestant churches
;
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
;
African Americans
;
United States
;
USA
;
Protestantismus
;
Rassismus
;
Ideologie
;
Eschatologie
;
Sezessionskrieg
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Prologue: The Civil War as an Eschatological Crisis -- Introduction: Harriet Tubman's (Pre)Millennium, 1850-1859, and the Fugitive Slave Act -- 1. John Brown's Apocalypse, 1859-1860 -- 2. Harriet Tubman;s Millennium, 1860 -- 3. Robert L. Dabney's Apocalypse, 1862 -- 4. Sojourner Truth's Millennium, 1863 -- 5. George B. McClellan's Apocalypse, 1864 -- 6. Oliver O. Howard's Millennium, 1865 -- Epilogue: Edmund Ruffin's Apocalypse, June 1865.
Abstract:
In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium. While previous historians have commented on the role of antebellum eschatology in political alignment, none have delved deeply into how religious views complicate the standard narrative of the North versus the South--back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-286) and index
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