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Come Shouting to Zion - African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (Paperback, New edition)
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Come Shouting to Zion - African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (Paperback, New edition)
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The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to
Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and
intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to
Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by
which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary
array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the
course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional
African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant
Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to
1830. Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a
complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians.
It highlights the role of African American preachers in the
conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African
American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual
patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black
spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in
which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western
culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped
transform Africans into African Americans. |An exploration of the
conversion of African-born slaves to Protestant Christianity, a
reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians.
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