| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans. By James B. Bennett. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv, 305 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-12148-6.)

After emancipation thousands of African Americans across the South flocked to independent African Methodist and Baptist churches. Over the last two decades, many historians have examined the emergence of independent black churches, emphasizing how they promoted a positive racial identity. But a significant number of African Americans joined or remained in biracial churches. Part of James B. Bennett's purpose is to explain why, and he concludes that far from being submissive, those African Americans hoped to forge a religious identity that transcended race. Bennett focuses on Methodist Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches in New Orleans.

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