The Church in the Southern Black community
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Religion; African American Baptists; African American Methodists; African American clergy; Biography; African American missionaries; African American churches; Slavery and the church; History; Church history; State universities and colleges; Protestant churches; Archives; African Methodist Episcopal Church; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; African Union Methodist Protestant Church (U.S.); Colored Methodist Episcopal Church; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Academic Affairs Library
Other titles: Documenting the American South :; Documenting the American South.
Description: 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 Christianity 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.
Notes: Title from project home page (viewed Sept. 4, 2001).

Part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. A sidebar provides access to the manin collections access page, about the collections, searching, subject, author and title indexes.

Includes bibliography and 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.

Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.

System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Table of contents: title: Collection of electronic texts; title: An introduction to the Church in the Southern Black community; title: About the project.