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Excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family

Excerpt from The Sword of the Lord, Chapter 6.

Guest blog by Sharon Autenrieth - I’m currently reading a book called The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family by Andrew Himes.   I snagged the opportunity to read it for review before publication, and I am loving it.  America

In researching my book The Sword of the Lord, I learned that my great-great-great grandfather was a man named Dangerfield Rice, a poor Tennessee farmer who moved to Missouri in 1820 and to become a wealthy owner of a hemp plantation and the many slaves who worked the land.