This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents-many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to find-include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, journalistic accounts, and theological statements. In this volume Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan's farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee becomes a female preacher among the African Methodists. Frederick Douglass discusses Christianity and slavery. Isaac Lane preaches among the freedmen. Nannie Helen Burroughs reports on the work of Baptist women. African Methodist bishops deliberate on the Great Migration. Bishop C. H. Mason tells of the Pentecostal experience. Mahalia Jackson recalls the glory of singing at the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes from the Birmingham jail.
Originally published in 1985, this expanded second edition includes new sources on women, African missions, and the Great Migration. Milton C. Sernett provides a general introduction as well as historical context and comment for each document.


An expanded, second edition including new sources on women, African missions, and the Great Migration

About the Author

Milton C. Sernett is Professor of African-American studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of several books, including Bound for the Promised Land, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews
From reviews of the first edition: "Anyone interested in America's religious past, and, specifically the black religious experience will be rewarded by reading and urging others to read this fine 'anthology.'" - Robert Michael Franklin, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Sernett deserves the highest marks for this collection."-Stephen J. Stein, Religious Studies Review " . . this book will long stand as a major and valuable tool for the study of Afro-American religious history." - Sandy D. Martin, The Black Scholar



Book Information
ISBN 9780822324492
Author Milton C. Sernett
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 885g