Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

by Betty Wood (Author), SylviaR.Frey (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $79.38

  This study explores the process by which the conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity took place. Using archival sources, the authors chart the conversion, depicting religious transformation as a reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians.