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dc.contributor.authorTurner, Nicole Myers
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-04T14:18:19Z
dc.date.available2023-10-04T14:18:19Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20231004_9798890857620_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76554
dc.description.abstractThat churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Protestantism and American politics at the end of the Civil War, Nicole Myers Turner challenges the idea of black churches as having always been politically engaged. Using local archives, church and convention minutes, and innovative Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, Turner reveals how freedpeople in Virginia adapted strategies for pursuing the freedom of their souls to worship as they saw fit—and to participate in society completely in the evolving landscape of emancipation. Freedpeople, for both evangelical and electoral reasons, were well aware of the significance of the physical territory they occupied, and they sought to organize the geographies that they could in favor of their religious and political agendas at the outset of Reconstruction. As emancipation included opportunities to purchase properties, establish black families, and reconfigure gender roles, the ministry became predominantly male, a development that affected not only discourses around family life but also the political project of crafting, defining, and teaching freedom. After freedmen obtained the right to vote, an array of black-controlled institutions increasingly became centers for political organizing on the basis of networks that mirrored those established earlier by church associations. We are proud to announce that this book will also be published as an enhanced open-access e-book on a companion website hosted by Fulcrum, an innovative publishing platform launched by Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library. The Fulcrum version of the book can be located using this link: https://doi.org/10.5149/9781469655253_Turner.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.other19th century African American History
dc.subject.otherAfrican Americans Church History
dc.subject.otherblack church history
dc.subject.otherReconstruction in Virginia
dc.subject.otherAfrican American Religious History
dc.subject.otherEmancipation in Virginia
dc.subject.otherAfrican American Political History
dc.subject.otherGender and race
dc.subject.otherRace relations in postemancipation south
dc.subject.otherHistory of Black churches
dc.subject.otherBlack church studies
dc.subject.otherAfrican Americans in Virginia
dc.subject.otherHistory of Christianity
dc.subject.otherChurch history, 1700-1899
dc.subject.otherBaptist church history in Virginia
dc.subject.otherEpiscopal Church history in Virginia
dc.subject.otherReformed Zion Union Apostolic Church History
dc.subject.otherBlack manhood and womanhood
dc.subject.otherTheological education
dc.titleSoul Liberty
dc.title.alternativeThe Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5149/9781469655246_Turner
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy29b4cf74-8c0a-422f-9d27-e862ca722861
oapen.relation.isFundedBy0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1
oapen.relation.isbn9798890857620
oapen.relation.isbn9781469655246
oapen.relation.isbn9781469655239
oapen.relation.isbn9781469655222
oapen.relation.isbn9781469655253
oapen.imprintThe University of North Carolina Press
oapen.pages232
oapen.place.publicationChapel Hill
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