Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South

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By Elizabeth L. Jemison ’08

Published June 23, 2020

  In Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South (UNC Press), Elizabeth L. Jemison ’08 studies black and white evangelicals’ opposing interpretations of the Bible and argues that these religious foundations for racial rights in the South fostered the very inequalities and segregation that linger to this day. 

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