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When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War

When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. By John Patrick Daly. (Lexington: University of kentucky Press, 2002. Pp. 207, acknowledgments, epilogue, notes, selected bibliography, index.)

One of the greatest quandaries facing those who teach courses dealing with the Civil war is how to explain the south's defense of slavery, particularly its religious defense. Generally, such arguments are unduly simplified: slaveholding southerners claimed that the Bible supported slavery and that the peculiar institution itself enabled slaves to be brought to Christ and saved from eternal damnation. while such explanations did typically play into ...

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