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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism. By Carolyn A. Haynes. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xxiv, 190 pp. $40.00, isbn 1-57806-018-4.)

In this series of five essays, Carolyn A. Haynes wants to examine the complicated relationship between nineteenth-century Protestantism and the social construction of domesticity and Manifest Destiny. Wisely, she pushes aside rigid interpretations that see evangelical Protestantism as either inherently repressive or essentially liberating, hoping to reexamine more carefully "the actual words and rhetorical choices made by selected individual white women, African Americans and Native Americans." A professor of interdisciplinary studies at Miami University, Haynes draws freely on the insights of poststructural feminists, women's psychologists, and historians. She brings those perspectives to bear in analyzing selections from the journals of George Whitefield and the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, the autobiographical writings of the Pequot activist William Apess, the works of Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Woman's Bible (1895-1898) project of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. . . .

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