Unreconstructed, Unreconciled: Race, Politics, Church, and Forgiveness After the Civil War
April 5 and April 12, 2010
What went on in American churches after the Civil War? How did white and African-American churches respond to Emancipation, and how were the failures of Reconstruction mirrored among Christians? Valerie Cooper and Scott Nesbit help us better understand the racial divisions that we experience as American Christians by helping us better understand this critical period of American Christianity. We will examine the patterns of Christianity in America that developed in the wake of slavery, while paying close attention to the tools that Christianity provides for understanding and perhaps overcoming ruptures that continue to mark church and society.
