Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era

"A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era." -Civil War News

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 a Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves' full freedom and equality as Americans.

By examining Civil War-era Protestantism in terms of the Union, Grant R...