Slavery's Long Shadow: Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity

How interactions of race and religion have influenced unity and division in the church

At the center of the story of American Christianity lies an integral connection between race relations and Christian unity. Despite claims that Jesus Christ transcends all racial barriers, the most segregated hour in America is still Sunday mornings when Christians gather for worship.

In Slavery’s Long Shadow fourteen historians and other scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race rela...