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024	7		_a10.1515/9780823279937 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780823279937
035			_a(DE-B1597)555346
035			_a(OCoLC)1033901359
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aE635 _b.B865 2018
072		7	_aHIS036050 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a973.7/78 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aBrodrecht, Grant R. _eautore
245	1	0	_aOur Country : _bNorthern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era / _cGrant R. Brodrecht.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bFordham University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a1 online resource (288 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aThe North's Civil War
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction: "Long Live the Glorious Union" -- _t1. "The Uprising of a Great People" -- _t2. 1864 -- _t3. "The Harvest of Death Is Complete" -- _t4. From Moses to Joshua -- _t5. The Union Saved Again -- _t6. Pax Grantis -- _tConclusion: "The Nation Still in Danger" -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNotes -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aOn March 4, 1865, the day Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address, Reverend Doctor George Peck put the finishing touches on a collection of his sermons that he intended to send to the president. Although the politically moderate Peck had long opposed slavery, he, along with many other northern evangelicals, was not an abolitionist. During the Civil War he had come to support emancipation, but, like Lincoln, the conflict remained first and foremost about preserving the Union. Believing their devotion to the Union was an act of faithfulness to God first and the Founding Fathers second, Our Country explores how many northern white evangelical Protestants sacrificed racial justice on behalf of four million African-American slaves (and then ex-slaves) for the Union's persistence and continued flourishing as a Christian nation.By examining Civil War-era Protestantism in terms of the Union, author Grant Brodrecht adds to the understanding of northern motivation and the eventual "failure" of Reconstruction to provide a secure basis for African American's equal place in society. Complementing recent scholarship that gives primacy to the Union, Our Country contends that non-radical Protestants consistently subordinated concern for racial justice for what they perceived to be the greater good. Mainstream evangelicals did not enter Reconstruction with the primary aim of achieving racial justice. Rather they expected to see the emergence of a speedily restored, prosperous, and culturally homogenous Union, a Union strengthened by God through the defeat of secession and the removal of slavery as secession's cause.Brodrecht eloquently addresses this so-called "proprietary" regard for Christian America, considered within the context of crises surrounding the Union's existence and its nature from the Civil War to the 1880s. Including sources from major Protestant denominations, the book rests on a selection of sermons, denominational newspapers and journals, autobiographies, archival personal papers of several individuals, and the published and unpublished papers of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. The author examines these sources as they address the period's evangelical sense of responsibility for America, while keyed to issues of national and presidential politics. Northern evangelicals' love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves' emancipation, but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves' full freedom and equality as Americans.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aProtestantism _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aAmerican Studies.
650		4	_aPolitical Science.
650		4	_aReligion.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). _2bisacsh
653			_aCivil War.
653			_aGeorge Peck.
653			_aJosiah Strong.
653			_aProtestant.
653			_aUnion.
653			_achristian.
653			_areconstruction.
653			_asouthern secession.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823279937?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823279937
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823279937/original
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