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The Church in the Southern Black community
Autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials dating from 1861 to 1925 that trace how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life.
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Date of Original
1861/1925
Subject
African Americans--Southern States--Religion
African American Baptists--Southern States
African American Methodists--Southern States
African American clergy--Southern States--Biography
African American missionaries--Southern States
African American churches--Southern States
Slavery and the church
African Methodist Episcopal Church--History
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church--History
African Union Methodist Protestant Church (U.S.)--History
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church--History
Southern States--Church history
United States--Church history
Location
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
Type
Text
Description
Contents: 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) formats
Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this project.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
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