ISBN:
9781640124882
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIII, 393 pages
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
973.7/1
Keywords:
Slavery
;
Religion and state History
;
Racism Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Slavery Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Religion
;
United States Politics and government
;
USA
;
Religion
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Rassismus
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is a hard-hitting history of the impact of racism and religion on the political, social, and economic development of the American nation from Jamestown to today, in particular the nefarious effects of slavery on U.S. society and history. Going back to England's rise as a colonial power and its use of slavery in its American colonies, Steven L. Dundas examines how racism and the institution of slavery influenced the political and social structure of the United States, beginning with the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Dundas tackles the debates over the Constitution's three-fifths solution on how to count Black Americans as both property and people, the expansion of the republic and slavery, and the legislation enacted to preserve the Union, including the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act-as well as their disastrous consequences.Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory squarely faces how racism and religion influenced individual and societal debates over slavery, Manifest Destiny, secession, and civil war. Dundas deals with the struggle for abolition, emancipation, citizenship, and electoral franchise for Black Americans, and the fierce and often violent rollback following Reconstruction's end, the Civil Rights Movement, and the social and political implications today. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is the story of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders; slaves and slaveholders; preachers, politicians, and propagandists; fire-eaters and firebrands; civil rights leaders and champions of white supremacy; and the ordinary people in the South and the North whose lives were impacted by it all. "--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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