Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era

Contents

CONTENTS Foreword by Mark A. Noll . . . . vii Acknowledgments . . . . xi Introduction . . . . 1 Ben Wright and Zachary W. Dresser 1 The Prophecy of Edmund Ruffin: Anticipating the Future of Civil War History . . . . 13 Jason Phillips 2 Spirit Politics: Radical Abolitionists and the Dead End of Spiritualism . . . . 31 Robert K. Nelson 3 “This Flattering Millennium Theory”: Denominationalism against Millennialism in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Crater . . . . 52 Ryan Cordell 4 Millennialism and the Church of England’s Mission to Fugitive Slaves in Canada . . . . 72 Nina Reid-Maroney vi Contents 5 Colonization and the Limits of Antislavery in Upcountry South Carolina . . . . 90 Joseph Moore 6 The Great Indian Pentecost: Providential Revisions, Indian Evangelization, and the Taking of the American West . . . . 110 Jennifer Graber 7 Providence Revised: The Southern Presbyterian Old School in the Civil War and Reconstruction . . . . 129 Zachary W. Dresser 8 Emancipation and African American Millennialism . . . . 154 Matthew Harper 9 A Sharecropper’s Millennium: Land and the Perils of Forgiveness in Post–Civil War South Carolina . . . . 175 Scott Nesbit 10 “Two Divisions of the Same Great Army”: Ecclesiastical Separation by Race and the Millennium . . . . 194 Charles F. Irons 11 “To Doubt This Would Be to Doubt God”: Reconstruction and the Decline of Providential Confidence . . . . 217 Edward J. Blum List of Contributors . . . . 253 ...