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Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery

Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery

Erskine, Noel Leo
Leo Erskine, Noel

Paperback

Caribbean HistoryReligion General

ISBN10: 0195369130
ISBN13: 9780195369137
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 6 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about the Black Church they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive Afro-Caribbean population was able to establish a form of Christianity that preserved African Gods and practices, but fused them with Christian teachings, resulting in religions such as Cuba's Santería. The Black religious experience in the U.S. was markedly different because African Americans were a political and cultural minority. The Plantation Church became a place of solace and resistance that provided its members with a sense of kinship, not only to each other but also to their ancestral past.

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