Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights

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Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. By Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Pp. xiii, 298; $35.00, cloth)

The subject of this book is the relationship between the Episcopal Church and its black communicants in the South from the end of the Civil War until the beginning of the civil rights movement and the reaction of the church to the changes in American race relationships that followed. It is a well-documented, thorough, and balanced account, and a significant one. The nature and change of race relationships within the denomination have their own drama, but they also approximated those in American society as a whole, and the …