Come shouting to Zion
Subtitle: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
By: Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood.
Contributors: Wood, Betty.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: African Americans -- Southern States -- Religion.; Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Religion.
Description: Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians. It highlights the role of African American preachers in the conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black spiritual community.

Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped transform Africans into African Americans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-277) and index.