from Part I - The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2023
As Powdermaker found, many of the families she examined and all the families in my work—working black poor, landed farmers, and Jack -- professed Christian faith. All were actively engaged in church and all desired marriage. Like the sharecropping poor, the landed Byrd patriarch, the quasi-croppers and the mule-renter’s son highly valued marriage, Christian faith, savings and a comfortable home. Often, the black poor and the non-poor shared the Sunday morning religious spaces, some sang in the same choirs and served on the usher board, not because they were members of the same caste, but because they were first and foremost Americans and Christians---imbued with a sense of American’s promise, not just their own. Faith and faith discourses allied them as a community—as a people—with the nation.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.