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A literary and intellectual history of early black Christians who
evangelized for freedom, this study focuses on the role of early
African American Christianity in the formation of American
egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context
for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed,
spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Cedrick May looks at the
work of a group of pivotal African American writers who helped set
the stage for the popularization of African American evangelical
texts and the introduction of black intellectualism into American
political culture: Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley, John Marrant,
Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and Maria Stewart.Religion gave these
writers agency and credibility, says May, and they appropriated the
language of Christianity to establish a common ground on which to
speak about social and political rights. In the process, these
writers spread the principles that enabled slaves and free blacks
to form communities, a fundamental step in resisting oppression.
Moreover, says May, this institution building was overtly
political, leading to a liberal shift in mainstream Christianity
and secular politics as black churches and the organizations they
launched became central to local communities and increasingly
influenced public welfare and policy.This important new study
restores a sense of the complex challenges faced by early black
intellectuals as they sought a path to freedom through
Christianity.
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