Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840

by Randolph Ferguson Scully

Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia provides a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the complex, biracial history of the Baptist movement in southeastern Virginia. This region and its religious history became a subject of intense national scrutiny in the wake of the 1831 revolt led by the enslaved preacher and prophet Nat Turner. But by the time Turner led his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927382
• ISBN13: 9780813927381
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher