United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.1194341861/1925Contents: Collection of electronic texts -- An introduction to the Church in the Southern Black community -- About the project.Traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life, beginning with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contraditions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christiantiy and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival.Title from project home page (viewed Sept. 4, 2001).Includes bibliography and indexes.Part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. A sidebar provides access to the main collections access page, about the collections, searching, subject, author and title indexes.Full texts in both HTML and SGML/TEI (Text Encloding Initiative) formatsFunding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this project.enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/African Americans--Southern States--ReligionAfrican American Baptists--Southern StatesAfrican American Methodists--Southern StatesAfrican American clergy--Southern States--BiographyAfrican American missionaries--Southern StatesAfrican American churches--Southern StatesSlavery and the churchAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church--HistoryAfrican Methodist Episcopal Zion Church--HistoryAfrican Union Methodist Protestant Church (U.S.)--HistoryColored Methodist Episcopal Church--HistorySouthern States--Church historyUnited States--Church historyThe Church in the Southern Black communityChurch in the Southern Black communityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. LibraryText