Our Country

“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, Gr