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

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: New York Oxford University Press 2011, 2011
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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:xi, 252 p. ill
ISBN:9780199894666
0199894663