For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina - Image 1

£76.95

University of South Carolina Press For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina

Name: For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina
Brand: University of South Carolina Press
Price: 76.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

19th Century

Price data last checked 45 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 46 days • 46 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 46 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £77 (46 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £77 - £77

Price levels: 1 different prices over 46 days

Description

An Irish Catholic family settled in the upcountry and helped shape mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina. For Church and Confederacy brings together a wealth of fascinating letters and other writings that unveil the lives of a prominent Southern Irish Catholic family during the late antebellum and Civil War years. Conlaw and Eleanor Lynch, hoping to restore the fortunes they had lost in their native country, settled in the South Carolina upcountry, where they imparted their ambitions to their children, several of whom would make exceptional marks in such areas as education, manufacturing, and religious life. Most prominent of the second-generation Lynches was Patrick, the eldest, who became the third Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston and developed a national reputation as a polemicist, preacher, and self-taught geologist. During the Civil War he proved to be a major Confederate apologist, a role that led officials in Richmond to appoint him to be a special commissioner to the Papal States as part of an effort to secure European support for the Southern cause. Other family members, particularly Francis, whose tanneries in the Carolinas supplied shoes to thousands of soldiers, and Ellen (also known as Sister Baptista), whose Catholic academy in Columbia became a refuge for the children of prominent Southern families, also made valuable contributions to the Confederacy. For all of them, slaveholding was considered indispensable to acquiring and sustaining their position in Southern society. Their correspondence shows them to have been on the periphery of the political turmoil that led to disunion, but once the war erupted, they quickly became strong secessionists. By the war’s end most found themselves in the path of William T. Sherman’s avenging army and, as a consequence, suffered great losses, both material and human. Featuring meticulous notes and commentary placing the Lynch siblings’ writings in historical context, this compelling portrait of the complex relationship among religion, slavery, and war has a sweep that carries the reader along as the war gradually overtakes the family’s privileged world and eventually brings it down.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of South Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1611179173
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Americas > United States > 19th Century
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2019
Listed Since: 23 April 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of South Carolina Press For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!

Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era (The North's Civil War)

American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s (Civil War America)

Carolinian Crucible: Reforging Class, Family, and Nation in Confederate South Carolina (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South

Our Southern Zion: History of Calvinism in South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990

Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!

Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina: 13 (Reconstructing America)

South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times Volume 3 (Southern Women): 8 (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)

This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947

The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670–1825

At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict

Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era (New Southern Studies)

Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)

Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction

The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family

The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ""Great Truth"" About the ""Lost Cause

The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865

Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900-1929 (Religion & American Culture)

Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South

The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory

Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series)