There are books and then there are books that you continue to return to for inspiration or because they offer such deep insight into a specific topic that each time you pick it up it reveals something new.
Thank you for sharing this, I will have to get the book. I take the same approach in my book, “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond.” Our past is often uncomfortable, it was for me. My family were early settlers in what became West Virginia, and the were slave owners who fought for the Confederacy.
Charles Dew, author of “Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War” wrote of my book: “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is a book for our time. Steven L. Dundas has skillfully woven slavery, race, racism, politics, and religion into a single entity in telling this country’s complex story. Every American would profit from reading what he is telling us.” I hope that my book will one day be thought about in the way you discuss Mr. Troulliot’s work.
Kevin,
Thank you for sharing this, I will have to get the book. I take the same approach in my book, “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond.” Our past is often uncomfortable, it was for me. My family were early settlers in what became West Virginia, and the were slave owners who fought for the Confederacy.
Charles Dew, author of “Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War” wrote of my book: “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is a book for our time. Steven L. Dundas has skillfully woven slavery, race, racism, politics, and religion into a single entity in telling this country’s complex story. Every American would profit from reading what he is telling us.” I hope that my book will one day be thought about in the way you discuss Mr. Troulliot’s work.
Thank you again.
Steve
You will definitely enjoy it, Steve.