Slavery By Paul Harvey Chapter Summary

Paul Harvey brings a chronological approach with the first two chapters in which he explains about the many years of southern religious history. His last three chapters were more of a thematic approach. He then brought these chapters together by talking about three main key terms. The first key term is theological racism, the second was racial interchange, and the last was Christian interracialism. The first and the last were discussed in a political manner, while the second signified cultural practice. These three terms, as well as the relationship between them, is the thesis of the novel.

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The author supports his thesis by showing the relationship between Christian racism amongst the white southerners towards black slaves and how it eventually faltered. Race and culture are two big areas where we differ significantly and is actually one of the ways we learned and understood the Jim Crow Laws of the south.
Harvey talks about the Reconstruction era and how efforts founded segregation. Biracial solutions to social problems that confronted southerners after the Civil War never were seen as a possibility. The desire with African Americans to take charge of their own religious beliefs encouraged the religious segregation, and by the 1880s, most southern white evangelicals were combining reconstruction with …show more content…
He does not assume cultural biracialism signaled rejection of social structure, but was in explosive worship style that could subvert, reinforce, or parody segregation. The Evangelical theater from the movement provided a cultural space where blacks and whites could be together and learn from one another, even if briefly. After the Holiness-Pentecostal movement, the cultural forms continued to create regional culture and encouraged interracial sharing. He even shows links between early Pentecostal services and biracial creativity with artists such as Ray Charles and Elvis