A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South

Author/Contributor(s):	Genovese, Eugene D
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	03/01/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

After the fall of the Confederacy, the reform campaign of prominent ministers and church laymen featured demands to secure slave marriages, repeal the laws against slave literacy, and punish cruel masters. A Consuming Fire analyzes aspects of the campaign and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.