God struck me dead
Subtitle: voices of ex-slaves
By: edited by Clifton H. Johnson ; with a new introduction by Albert J. Rabateau [i.e. Raboteau].
Contributors: Johnson, Clifton H. 1921-
Series: The William Bradford collection from the Pilgrim Press
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Christian converts -- United States -- Biography; Freedmen -- United States -- Religious life; Freedmen -- United States -- Biography; African Americans -- Religion; African Americans -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: An invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves, God Struck Me Dead is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. Gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive study during the 1930s on race relations, and originally published by the Pilgrim Press in 1969, this volume is a rich resource of liberation from those whose faith was borne and tested by the cruelest of human degradations - slavery. Includes a preface by Paul Radin, author and expert on primal religion.