[PDF.41mc] The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation

The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation

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 | #180779 in Books |  Matthew Harper |  2016-09-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.69 x.76 x6.18l,.0 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Harper argues that historians have not given enough attention to ...|By JS|Harper argues that historians have not given enough attention to the religious motives that informed African American political and economic strategies in the postbellum era. He posits that African Americans “understood political events to be part of a larger spiritual drama,” meaning that ne| |[Harper's] extensive research in multiple archives yields a valuable account of black Protestants tenaciously asserting that the god of Christian faith was still active in history despite the overwhelming expansion of institutional racism. Recommended.--Cho

For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In this book, Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding of the end times, influenced nearly every major economic and political decision they made in the aftermath of emancipation. From considering what demands to make in early ...

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