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| Acknowledgments page | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Britain, America, and the Emergence of Providential Separatism | |
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| Providence and the Problem of England in Early America | |
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| "Openinge a Dore" : 1600-1640 | |
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| "A Constant Correspondence": 1640-1660 | |
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| "To Rip Up the Womb of Time": 1660-1700 | |
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| Conclusion": "Magnalia Dei" | |
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| "Empires Are Mortal": The Origins of Providential Separatism, 1756-1775 | |
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| "This Providential Key": Providence and Public Affairs in Hanoverian Britain | |
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| "The Indulgence of Heaven": National Identity in the Seven Years' War | |
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| "A Dream in the Night": The Discontinuities of British History | |
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| "That Awful Goal": Imperial Decline and the Future of America | |
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| "Open Paths": The Development of American Providentialism | |
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| Conclusion: "People of Different Genius" | |
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| "Becoming a Nation at Once": Providentialism and the American Revolution | |
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| "The Asylum of Liberty and True Religion": Patriot Providentialism | |
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| "To Deceive the Elect": The Limits of Providential Appeal | |
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| "Pencillers of Providence": Britain and the Meaning of the Revolution | |
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| Conclusion: Thanksgiving 1783-1784 | |
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| Providence, Race, and the Limits of Revolution | |
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| "Our Glorious Example": The Limits of Revolutionary Providentialism | |
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| Providence, Reform, and Revlution: 1786-1796 | |
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| Confounded Expectations: 1796-1808 | |
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| "The Illustrious Hereafter": 1808-1815 | |
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| Conclusion: "Citizens of the World" | |
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| "Deifying Prejudice": Race and Removal in the Early Republic | |
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| "The Hand of Heaven Is in It": The Blueprint for Indian Removal | |
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| "A Divine Impulse": Removing Blacks | |
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| "The Obvious Designs of Heaven": Providence and the Politics of Removal | |
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| Conclusion: "Judgments Are Yet to Be Visited upon Us" | |
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| "Divided Destinies": The Providential Meanings of American Slavery | |
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| "The Fulfillment of Our Mission": Expansion and Its Critics | |
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| Slavery and Providence | |
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| "The Key to American History": Slavery and the Rationale for Secession | |
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| Conclusion: "That Great Idea of National Continuity" | |
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| "The Regenerated Nation": The Civil War and the Price of Reunion | |
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| "What Is to Be the Mission of This Nation?": God and the Confederacy | |
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| "We Will Retrieve Our Destiny": Slavery, War, and Reunion | |
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| Conclusion: "The Great Deliverance" | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison's Complaint | |
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| Providence and the New South | |
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| "The Sacred Significance of This War" | |
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| Conclusion: "Centennial Reflections" | |
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| Index | |