Author

Publication

1979 - Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

113,500 words, Guess

Page Count

454 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC286/.173
  • LCCBR563.N4 S64
  • LCCBR563

Description

Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation. -- PUIBLISHER DESCRIPTION.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Trabelin' on: the slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faithGreenwood Press1979-01-01

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