God and Race in American Politics

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A Short History

By Mark A. Noll
(Princeton University Press, 2008)

Noll traces the political effects of the interplay of race and religion in American history.

Both supporters and opponents of slavery and segregation drew on the Bible to justify the morality of their positions in ways that continue to play out in today’s controversies.

Hardcover, 224 pages

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