Book: Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey To An Afro-baptist Faith 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.
Details of Book: Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey To An Afro-baptist Faith Book: Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey To An Afro-baptist Faith
Author: Mechal Sobel
ISBN: 0691006032
ISBN-13: 9780691006031
, 978-0691006031
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Apr 1988
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number of Pages: 344
Language: English