"To endure the hardships of the frontier took more than a determined pioneer spirit. It required a faith that everything would work out for the best-that someth

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that thro

Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt", the region was not always characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth centu

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as s