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Trabelin' on: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith. Abridged Paperback

Trabelin' on: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith. Abridged Paperback

Paperback

Black American StudiesColonial Period (1600-1775)General Christianity

ISBN10: 0691006032
ISBN13: 9780691006031
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Apr 21 1988
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.23
Language: English

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.

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Black American Studies