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

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

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