Houses Divided

Houses Divided

Author: Lucas P. Volkman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0190248327

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Focusing on the slaveholding border state of Missouri, Houses Divided shows that congregational and local denominational schisms, which arose initially over the moral question of African-American bondage, played a central role in sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction.