Slave missions and the Black church in the antebellum South / Janet Duitsman Cornelius.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cornelius, Janet Duitsman
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
Slavery and the church > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Religious life > Southern States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Southern States > Religion > 19th century.
African American churches > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Church history > 19th century.
Southern States > History > 1775-1865.
Physical Description:x, 305 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • "Cords of love": religious cultures intertwined, yet separate
  • "Blooming like a green bay tree": the Black church's Baptist roots in the slave South
  • "Down in de valley": the transformation of the Methodist mission
  • "Souls to be saved": mission promoters confront the slave system
  • "They are our masters no longer": Black religion under white protection in Southern cities
  • "Simple guileless teachers": Sunday schools, catechisms and the print culture
  • "Under our own vine and palm tree": the colonizing mission to Liberia
  • "Their good and his glory": the slave missions and Southern nationalism
  • "Jesus break slav'ry chain Lord": the Black church and freedom
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.