By Edward J. Blum
In the course of Reconstruction, former abolitionists within the North had a golden chance to pursue actual racial justice and everlasting reform in the US. yet why, after the sacrifice made by way of hundreds of thousands of Union squaddies to reach at this juncture, did the instant slip away, leaving many whites in the course of the kingdom extra racist than prior to? Edward J. Blum takes a clean examine this query, going past problems with economics, gender, and old reminiscence to target the very important function that faith performed in reunifying northern and southern whites right into a racially segregated society. He tells the attention-grabbing tale of the way northern Protestantism, as soon as the catalyst for racial egalitarianism, promoted and sanctified notions of a mythic "white republic."
The Civil struggle, notes Blum, had torn aside all experience of what it intended to be an "American," leaving northern and southern whites feeling remoted from one another. during this political weather, the pleas of reformers have been stifled by way of non secular leaders who evoked a unifying picture of the rustic, person who conflated whiteness, godliness, and nationalism. This photo of the white republic helped mend the North-South rift whereas lending ethical goal to the government’s imperialist goals. by way of 1900 the U.S. felt divinely sanctioned in subjugating peoples of colour at domestic and in another country.
Reforging the White Republic winds and twists via a wide range of venues and media to rfile how figures from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Frederick Douglass both supported or attempted to withstand the retreat from Reconstruction. Magazines, own diaries, sermons, hymns, travelogues, ideal courtroom reviews, and political caricatures illustrate non secular ideologies at play in nearly each point of the bigger tradition. a mix of historical past and social technology, the publication bargains a shocking viewpoint at the forces of faith in addition to nationalism and imperialism at a severe element in American historical past.
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The hopes for a nation of sectional and racial fraternity in Giles’s 1867 print had been thoroughly defeated and erased. An America of sacred white supremacy and global aspirations had been born. III Reforging the White Republic is not just concerned with the attitudes and actions of northern white Protestants. Southern whites and African Americans were also essential to and influenced by the process of reunion. Each chapter and the epilogue, therefore, includes the responses of southern whites and African Americans to national events.
B. Du Bois told students at the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1907, American prejudice and greed were moral and spiritual problems at their core. ” 22 To black leaders like Du Bois, racism, segregation, lynching, and imperialism proved that the American nation was anything but Christian. African Americans served as the most astute and brilliant critics of the spiritual state of the nation and repeatedly highlighted connections between northern Protestantism, sectional reconciliation, and the formation of an American nationalism premised upon whiteness.
The “radical” Republicans, who drew much of their support from the abolitionists, were far more interested in completely transforming the 24 / r efor g i ng th e w h i t e r e p u b l ic South. By and large, they wanted to punish Confederates for their disloyalty, confiscate some of their property to distribute to people of color, and empower African Americans throughout the country with equal rights before the law. The radicals were committed to assuring that African Americans had a meaningful role in the postbellum government, regardless of how southern whites felt about it.
