When slavery was called freedom
Subtitle: evangelicalism, proslavery, and the causes of the Civil War
By: John Patrick Daly.
Series: Religion in the South
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Slavery -- Southern States -- Justification.; Evangelicalism -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Evangelicalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Southern States -- Moral conditions.; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Description: "In When Slavery Was Called Freedom, author John Patrick Daly astutely dissects the evangelical defense of slavery at the heart of the nineteenth century's sectional crisis. He brings a new understanding to the role of religion in the Old South and the ways in which religion was put to use in the Confederacy. Southern evangelicals argued that their unique region was destined for greatness, and their rhetoric gave expression and a degree of coherence to the grassroots assumptions of the South.".

"The North and South shared assumptions about freedom, prosperity, and morality. The ferocity of the slavery debate and the war reflected each region's struggle to control strikingly similar identities. Though the two sides drew different practical conclusions. Daly explains that antislavery and proslavery emerged from the same evangelical roots. Both Northerners and Southerners interpreted the Bible and Christian moral dictates in light of individualism and free market economics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Freedom and evangelical culture in the South; title: The post-1831 birth of evangelical proslavery; title: Answering abolitionists, defending slaveholders; title: The evangelical vision of the South and its future; title: Evangelical proslavery, free labor, and disunion, 1850-1861; title: The proslavery formula and the test of war, 1860-1865.