| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface; 1. A Grand Field for Missionary Labor; 2. Wartime Expansion; 3. AMA Common Schools After the War; 4. Freedmen's Relief; 5. Friends and Allies; 6. Administration and Fund Collecting; 7. Public Schools and Teacher Training; 8. The AMA Colleges; 9. The AMA and the Black Church; 10. Yankee Schoolteachers; 11. Black Teachers and Missionaries; 12. The AMA and the White Community; 13. The AMA and the Black Community; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction |
| Notes |
Originally published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-335) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American Missionary Association -- History -- 19th century
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| SUBJECT |
American Missionary Association fast |
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American Missionary Association gnd |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
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USA -- Südstaaten
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Schwärze
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817382469 |
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0817382461 |
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