Trabelin' on : the slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faith / Mechal Sobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobel, Mechal.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; 006-9624. no. 36.

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 36, 0069-9624

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

African American Baptists--History.

African American Baptists.

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Religion.

History.

United States.

Africa, West--Religion.

Africa, West.

West Africa.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 454 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, 1979.

Contents:

Part I. The African World View and Its Enslavement

Part II: God's Precious Dealing with Their Souls: The Baptist Outreach to the Blacks and Early Afro-Christianity

Part III: Nobody Knows But Jesus: The Coherent Afro-Christian World View

Conclusions: The Way of the World

Appendix I: Formally Organized Black Baptist Churches, 1758-1864

Appendix II: A Note on the Sunbury Baptist Association and the Association for the Religious Instruction of the Negroes in Liberty County, Georgia

Appendix III: Black Church Associations, 1835-1865.

Notes:

"First published in 1979."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-436) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0837198879

OCLC:

4922632