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Slave missions and the Black church in the antebellum South
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Slave missions and the Black church in the antebellum South / Janet Duitsman Cornelius.
ISBN
1570032475
Published
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1999.
Physical Description
x, 305 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgment
Introduction
"Cords of love": religious cultures intertwined, yet separate
"Blooming like a green bay tree": the Black church's Baptist roots in the slave South
"Down in de valley": the transformation of the Methodist mission
"Souls to be saved": mission promoters confront the slave system
"They are our masters no longer": Black religion under white protection in Southern cities
"Simple guileless teachers": Sunday schools, catechisms and the print culture
"Under our own vine and palm tree": the colonizing mission to Liberia
"Their good and his glory": the slave missions and Southern nationalism
"Jesus break slav'ry chain Lord": the Black church and freedom
Notes
Bibliography.
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