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The Church and the Social Order in the Old South as Interpreted by James H. Thornwell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

H. Shelton Smith
H. Shelton Smith
Affiliation:
Duke University, Durham, N. C.
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The last generation of the ante-bellum South devoted its best thought to the integration of a plantation culture whose economic base was chattel slavery. Every aspect of its civilization had to make its peace with slavery or be rejected. Long before the guns fired on Fort Sumpter, southern civilization had wrought out an ideology that was as dogmatic as Marxism has ever dared to be. Those who rejected this ideology were promptly silenced or ushered into a cooler climate. The liberalism of an older revolutionary South had long ago been smothered in the atmosphere of cultural fascism.

Type
Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1938 , pp. 115 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1938

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1 Vander Velde, L. G., The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union (Cambridge, 1932), 30.Google Scholar

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28 Works, IV, 391.

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