In his massive Northern revival circuit of 1875–1877, Moody had invited select Southerners, such as evangelist William Swan Plumer of South Carolina, to share the podium and enact a microcosm of white Christian fellowship. Moody was welcomed in the South with thronging crowds; his meetings were segregated; he prayed for the Confederate dead; and he signaled his desire that Christian unity take precedence over racial equality. Moody won praise as a unifier and embodied the prevailing mood among white Americans. Over the following decades, even as Southerners embraced the “Lost Cause” and
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