![]() Maddex, this book is characteristic Genovese-informative, insightful, and provocative.- Library Journal ![]() Both challenging and complementary to works by Drew Gilpin Faust, Mitchell Snay, and Jack P. ![]() Tests the rhetoric of slave-holding as stewardship against a fearful reality many argued to reform. Genovese has again essayed important questions that scholars need to address in more depth as they probe the many effects of the Civil War upon the South.- Journal of Southern History Genovese makes a convincing, well-documented case that, although southern ministers supported the war for a slaveholding republic, they did not do so uncritically and repeatedly warned southerners that they had to conform to God's word on the treatment of their slaves if the Confederacy were to benefit from God's support and achieve victory.-Gaines M. Gives historians of the pro- and antislavery causes much to think about.- American Historical Review Thoroughly researched and cogently argued. book belongs on the required reading list of all seriously interested in southern history.- Civil War Book ReviewĪlways a superb essayist, develops a crisp and powerful argument about the religious strand in the pro-slavery argument, before, during, and after the war.- Times Literary Supplement Written with intellectual rigor and impressive scholarship. A remarkable and important contribution to southern history during its most critical period. ![]()
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