Mormon Menace
Subtitle: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199740024
Subjects: Church of jesus christ of latter-day saints; Mormons; Southern states, church history
Description: Mason demonstrates how anti-Mormonism was one of the earliest grounds for reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Southerners joined with northern reformers and Republicans to endorse the use of federal power to vanquish the perceived threat to Christian marriage and the American republic.