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Contents Acknowledgments ix A Note on Illustrations and Endnotes xi introduction. What Is the Soul of Man? 1 chapter one. Moses, Jesus, Absalom, and the Trickster: Narratives of the Evangelical South 6 chapter two. “‘Because I Was a Master’”: Religion, Race, and Southern Ideas of Freedom 54 chapter three. Suffering Saint: Jesus in the South 96 Notes 159 Index 173 This page intentionally left blank ...

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