Citizens of a Christian nation : Evangelical missions and the problem of race in the nineteenth century /

Citizens of a Christian nation : Evangelical missions and the problem of race in the nineteenth century / Derek Chang.

In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. During this turbulent period, which witnessed the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision an...

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Main Author: Chang, Derek, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
Subjects:
American Baptist Home Mission Society > History > 19th century.
Home missions > United States > History > 19th century.
Baptists > Missions > United States > History > 19th century.
Evangelistic work > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Missions > History > 19th century.
Chinese Americans > Missions > History > 19th century.
White people > United States > Attitudes > History > 19th century.
Missionaries > United States > Attitudes > History > 19th century.
Racism > Religious aspects > Baptists > History > 19th century.
Racism.
United States > Race relations > Religious aspects > History > 19th century.

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