Slave missions and the Black church in the antebellum South
This volume examines the interactions between white missionaries and slaves in the 1840s and 1850s, and the ways in which blacks used the missions to nurture the formation of the organized black church. The author uses church records, slave narratives, and autobiographies in her research.
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, ©1998
Church history
[1 volume]
9781570032479, 1570032475
60191725
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