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who settled there between 1861 and 1865. Second, Nunley leaves largely unexplored how the established free Black community—the parents and students who patronized Alethia Tanner’s and Myrtilla Miner’s schools and the congregants who sustained the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches—viewed Black women’s participation in the illicit sex trade. These small caveats aside, this is a well-organized, tightly reasoned, and engagingly written study that is certain to spark discussion and inspire new work. No student of Civil War–era Washington and of African American women in the nineteenth century will want to miss it. Joseph P. Reidy joseph p. reidy is an emeritus professor of history at Howard University. His most recent publication is Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism. By Ben Wright. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 253. Cloth, $45.00.) Historians have long connected the rise of the antebellum abolitionist movement with the growth of evangelical Christianity in the early decades of the nineteenth century. However, we more frequently approach the rela- tionship between religion and abolition from the perspective of abolition- ists
The Journal of the Civil War Era – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 19, 2022
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