...This chapter describes how Nat Turner forced Virginia's white evangelicals to rethink their relationship with their black brethren and set in motion a chain of events that caused them to rethink their relationship with their codenominationalists in the North. In response to the insurrection...

...This chapter illustrates how Virginia's white evangelicals helped start a regionwide campaign for slave missions when Nat Turner compelled them to rethink the relationship between slavery and evangelicalism. In the years following the Southampton Insurrection, southern whites traded strategies...

... counterparts—Capitol Hill, the Washington Monument, the war memorials, and much more—but the white evangelicals who flock to the tours are searching for evidence that America was founded as a Christian nation. The tours preach a historical jeremiad that resonates far beyond Washington. White evangelicals...