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[-7], CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1 Mapping Black Savannah: Nation and Religion 15 CHAPTER 2 Holding the Line for the Word: Black Evangelicals below the Mason-Dixon 49 CHAPTER 3 “Even If He Is a Woman”: Savannah’s Talented Tenth and Black Suffrage 76 CHAPTER 4 “Have Hardly Had Straw”: Black Christian Nation Building and White Christian Philanthropy 111 CHAPTER 5 “Peace and Harmony of the Church”: The Secularization of Black Savannah 150 Epilogue: From Black Christian Nationalism to Civil Rights 185 Notes 197 Bibliography 223 Index 241 This page intentionally left blank ...

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