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FAITH, RACE, AND THE LOST CAUSE IBD

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
03 / 2023
9780813948799
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Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause is a new history of RichmondâÇÖs famous St. PaulâÇÖs Episcopal Church, attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis during the Civil War and a tourist magnet thereafter. Christopher Alan GrahamâÇÖs narrative-which emerged out of St. PaulâÇÖs History and Reconciliation Initiative-charts the congregationâÇÖs theological and secular views of race from the churchâÇÖs founding in 1845 to the present day, exploring the churchâÇÖs complicity in Lost Cause narratives and racial oppression in Richmond.ááááGraham investigates the ways that the actions of elite white southerners who imagined themselves as benevolent-liberal, even-in their treatment of Black people through the decades obscured the actual damage to Black bodies and souls that this ostensible liberalism caused. Through charting the legacy of St. PaulâÇÖs self-described benevolent paternalism on the racial and religious geography of Richmond, Graham reflects on what an authentic process of recognition and reparations might be, drawing useful lessons for America writ large.

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