{"product_id":"the-end-of-days-matthew-harper-9781469668710","title":"The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation","description":"For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In this book, Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding of the end times, influenced nearly every major economic and political decision they made in the aftermath of emancipation. From considering what demands to make in early Reconstruction to deciding whether or not to migrate west, African American Protestants consistently inserted themselves into biblical narratives as a way of seeing the importance of their own struggle in God's greater plan for humanity. Phrases like \"jubilee,\" \"Zion,\" \"valley of dry bones,\" and the \"New Jerusalem\" in black-authored political documents invoked different stories from the Bible to argue for different political strategies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study offers new ways of understanding the intersections between black political and religious thought of this era. Until now, scholarship on black religion has not highlighted how pervasive or contested these beliefs were. This narrative, however, tracks how these ideas governed particular political moments as African Americans sought to define and defend their freedom in the forty years following emancipation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Harper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469668718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469668710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"Matthew Harper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987108561151,"sku":"9781469668710","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55dc3293-1f5a-451e-a8e8-04ca45374b0e.jpg?v=1683287059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-end-of-days-matthew-harper-9781469668710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}