When Slavery was Called Freedom
Subtitle: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War (Religion in the South)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: September 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780813190938
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; USA; History; United States - Civil War; Christian Ministry - Evangelism; Christianity - Evangelism
First sentence: Southern morality was an amalgam of Protestant traditions and blunt materialism, because evangelical ministers tended to sacralize the American institutions under which their denominations expanded.