Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation - African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830-1870

Informationen zum Autor Daniel L. Fountain is an associate professor of history and director of the public history program at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Klappentext During the Civil War, traditional history tells us, Afro-Christianity proved a strong force for slaves' perseverance and hope of deliverance. In Slavery, Civil War and Salvation, however, Daniel Fountain raises the possibility that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within the antebellum slave community than most scholars currently assert. Fountain presents a new timeline for the African American conversion experience, insisting that only after emancipation and the fulfillment of the predicted Christian deliverance did African Americans more consistently turn to Christianity. Freedom, Fountain contends, brought most former slaves into the Christian faith. Zusammenfassung During the Civil War, traditional history tells us, Afro-Christianity proved a strong force for slaves' perseverance and hope of deliverance. In this volume, however, Daniel Fountain raises the possibility that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within the antebellum slave community than most scholars currently assert.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel L Fountain, Daniel L. Fountain
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2010
• EAN: 9780807136997
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3699-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries