Trabelin' on
Subtitle: the slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faith
By: Mechal Sobel.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ;; no. 36.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: African Americans -- Religion; African American Baptists -- History; Slavery -- United States; Africa, West -- Religion
Description: Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation. -- PUIBLISHER DESCRIPTION.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [249]-306.
Reprint. Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1979. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 36)
Includes indexes.