Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith
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| Management number | 232071021 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$10.76 | Model Number | 232071021 | ||
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Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation. Read more
| ASIN | 0691006032 |
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| ISBN10 | 9780691006031 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0691006031 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Dimensions | 6 x 0.86 x 9 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.06 pounds |
| Print length | 344 pages |
| Publication date | April 1, 1988 |
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