Episcopalians and Race
Subtitle: Civil War to Civil Rights (Religion in the South)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780813190648
Subjects: Anglican & Episcopalian Churches; Racism & racial discrimination; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science; Religion - Denominations - Religions; USA; Christianity - Episcopalian; Christianity - History - Protestant; Discrimination & Racism; Christianity - Episcopalianism
First sentence: As W.E.B. Du Bois observed in his path-breaking history of the Reconstruction era, news of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation evoked exuberant expressions of religious feeling among African Americans in the South.