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Book Soul Liberty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicole Myers Turner
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2020-02-20
  • ISBN : 1469655241
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Soul Liberty written by Nicole Myers Turner and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Protestantism and American politics at the end of the Civil War, Nicole Myers Turner challenges the idea of black churches as having always been politically engaged. Using local archives, church and convention minutes, and innovative Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, Turner reveals how freedpeople in Virginia adapted strategies for pursuing the freedom of their souls to worship as they saw fit—and to participate in society completely in the evolving landscape of emancipation. Freedpeople, for both evangelical and electoral reasons, were well aware of the significance of the physical territory they occupied, and they sought to organize the geographies that they could in favor of their religious and political agendas at the outset of Reconstruction. As emancipation included opportunities to purchase properties, establish black families, and reconfigure gender roles, the ministry became predominantly male, a development that affected not only discourses around family life but also the political project of crafting, defining, and teaching freedom. After freedmen obtained the right to vote, an array of black-controlled institutions increasingly became centers for political organizing on the basis of networks that mirrored those established earlier by church associations. We are proud to announce that this book will also be published as an enhanced open-access e-book on a companion website hosted by Fulcrum, an innovative publishing platform launched by Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library. The Fulcrum version of the book can be located using this link: https://doi.org/10.5149/9781469655253_Turner.

Book Migrants Against Slavery

Download or read book Migrants Against Slavery written by Philip J. Schwarz and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants in a society grounded in bondage; fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves; free African Americans searched for greater opportunity. In Migrants against Slavery Philip J. Schwarz suggests that antislavery migrant Virginians, both the famous--such as fugitive Anthony Burns and abolitionist Edward Coles--and the lesser known, deserve closer scrutiny. Their migration and its aftermath, he argues, intensified the national controversy over human bondage, playing a larger role than previous historians have realized in shaping American identity and in Americans' effort to define the meaning of freedom.

Book The Virginia Baptist Register

Download or read book The Virginia Baptist Register written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Century Of The First Baptist Church Of Richmond  Virginia  1780 1880

Download or read book The First Century Of The First Baptist Church Of Richmond Virginia 1780 1880 written by Va ) First Baptist Church (Richmond and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The African American National Biography  Dihigo Gwynn

Download or read book The African American National Biography Dihigo Gwynn written by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.

Book Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies 1993

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies 1993 written by Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Century of the First Baptist Church of Richmond  Virginia

Download or read book The First Century of the First Baptist Church of Richmond Virginia written by Henry Allen and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Come Shouting to Zion

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  • Author : Sylvia R. Frey
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-11-09
  • ISBN : 0807861588
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Come Shouting to Zion written by Sylvia R. Frey and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to 1830. 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.

Book Herringshaw s Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Herringshaw s Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century written by Thomas William Herringshaw and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia

Download or read book A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia written by Robert Baylor Semple and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren

Download or read book To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren written by Peter P. Hinks and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1829, David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century: An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his "afflicted and slumbering brethren" to rise up and cast off their chains. His innovative efforts to circulate this pamphlet in the South outraged slaveholders, who eventually uncovered one of the boldest and most extensive plans to empower slaves ever conceived in antebellum America. Though Walker died in 1830, the Appeal remained a rallying point for many African Americans for years to come. In this ambitious book, Peter Hinks combines social biography with textual analysis to provide a powerful new interpretation of David Walker and his meaning for antebellum American history. Little was formerly known about David Walker's life. Through painstaking research, Hinks has situated Walker much more precisely in the world out of which he arose in early nineteenth-century coastal North and South Carolina. He shows the likely impact of Wilmington's independent black Methodist church upon Walker, the probable sources of his early education, and--most significant--the pivotal influence that Denmark Vesey's Charleston had on his thinking about religion and resistance. Walker's years in Boston from 1825, his mounting involvement with the Northern black reform movement, and the remarkable underground network used to distribute the Appeal, all reconstructed here, testify to Walker's centrality in the development of American abolitionism and antebellum black activism. Hinks's thorough exegesis of the Appeal illuminates how this document was one of the most startling and incisive indictments of American racism ever written. He shows how Walker labored to harness the optimistic activism of evangelical Christianity and revolutionary republicanism to inspire African Americans to a new sense of personal worth and to their capacity to challenge the ideology and institutions of white supremacy. Yet the failure of Walker's bold and novel formulations to threaten American slavery and racism proved how difficult, if not impossible, it was to orchestrate large-scale and effective slave resistance in antebellum America. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren fathoms for the first time this complex individual and the ambiguous history surrounding him and his world.

Book History of the First African Baptist Church

Download or read book History of the First African Baptist Church written by Emanuel King Love and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the first African Baptist Church is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book The History of the Negro Church

Download or read book The History of the Negro Church written by Carter Godwin Woodson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Herringshaw s Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Herringshaw s Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century written by Thomas William Herringshaw and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Jeremiah Jones of Orangeburg District  South Carolina

Download or read book History of Jeremiah Jones of Orangeburg District South Carolina written by Mary Eloise Jones and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Microforms in Print

Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: