Snay, Mitchell

Mitchell Snay is professor of history at Denison University, where he focuses on the middle period (c. 1815-1877) of American history. Before teaching at Denison, he was lecturer at Harvard University. His first book, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), was on religion and the intellectual origins of antebellum southern separatism. His next books, Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery, co-edited with John R. McKivigan (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998) and Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Ra...