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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. (Religion in the South.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2000. Pp. xiii, 298. $32.50.
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Episcopalians, unlike Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, never divided over slavery. It is true that, for a brief time during the Civil War, southern Episcopalians formed a Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. Since, however, northern bishops had never severed relations with their southern counterparts, it was possible to welcome them back into the church and maintain that the unity of the church had never been broken. Thus begins the history told by Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., of a church torn between unity among white Christians and justice for African Americans. |
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