Title: The Church in the Southern Black community
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.
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
Places: Southern States, United States