Religion and the making of Nat Turner's Virginia
Subtitle: Baptist community and conflict in the Old Dominion, 1740-1840
By: Randolph Ferguson Scully.
Series: The American South series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780813927381
Subjects: Turner, Nat, -- 1800?-1831 -- Influence; Baptists -- Virginia -- Southampton County -- History -- 18th century; Baptists -- Virginia -- Southampton County -- History -- 19th century; Southampton Insurrection, 1831-; Southampton County (Va.) -- Church history -- 18th century; Southampton County (Va.) -- Church history -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Nat Turner's Virginia; title: Charming liberty : discourses of establishment and dissent in eighteenth-century Virginia; title: Little societies : the rise of the Baptists; title: Sacred regard to the rights of mankind : confronting the revolution; title: Somewhat liberated : Baptist community and authority in Nat Turner's Virginia; title: Rebellious and ungovernable : Nat Turner and the religious world of Antebellum Virginia.