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The Mormon menace : violence and anti-Mormonism in the postbellum South /

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Mason demonstrates how anti-Mormonism was one of the earliest grounds for reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Southerners joined with northern reformers and Republicans to endorse the use of federal power to vanquish the perceived threat to Christian marria...

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Main Author: Mason, Patrick Q.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > History.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Latter Day Saints > Persecutions > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Church history.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire religieuse.
RELIGION > Christianity > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Latter Day Saints > Persecutions
Southern States
Electronic books.
Church history
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Mason demonstrates how anti-Mormonism was one of the earliest grounds for reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Southerners joined with northern reformers and Republicans to endorse the use of federal power to vanquish the perceived threat to Christian marriage and the American republic.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 252 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199792337
019979233X
9781282978577
1282978578
9780199894666
0199894663
9780199792870
0199792879