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Article: The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox/Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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- Anglican Theological Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox. By Stephen Budiansky. New York: Viking, 2008. 322 pp. $27.95 (cloth).
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. By Douglas A. Blackmon. New York: Doubleday, 2008. 468 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
This past semester I taught a course at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary on the anthropology of the cross. By a strange and powerful confluence of events, the session on "the crucified as innocent victim"-for which I had assigned reading from the recent work of theologian James Cone on the cross and the lynching tree-took place on Friday night, April 4, on the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, ...