| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America. By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. x, 216 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-226-29819-1. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-226-29820-5.)

Slavery, the system of human bondage, is as old as the human race, but slavery in the New World, though relatively recent on the chronological chart, was unique in its internal ironies, in its persistent stereotypes, in the historical scope and intensity of its social and moral effects, and in the ambivalent legacy it bequeathed concerning race and ethnicity. Being black became a prickly ideological subject, and being white, a self-justified if widely questioned moral claim. And when in the eighteenth century blacks embraced Christianity en masse for the first time, they signaled an explicit break with the establishment religion of white moral superiority. Liberation in a slave society entailed repudiating slavery and challenging the race doctrine supporting it. Protestant Christianity fissured with the emergence of a black variant calling for reform. Black Christian leaders eventually directed that reform impulse into its civil rights phase. . . .

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