The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia.By Charles F. Irons. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

摘要

In the kind of detailed study long overdue, Charles Irons focuses on thendevelopment and character of biracial Protestant Christianity in pre-CivilnWar Virginia. Using a wide variety of sources, including manuscript churchnminutes, denominational newspapers, private letters and diaries, and printednsermons and biographies, he reconstructs the close interactions betweennblack and white members in the three dominant churches of the region, thenBaptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian, with most emphasis on the first two