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The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to 1830.Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians. It highlights the role of African American preachers in the conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped transform Africans into African Americans.
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African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood
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1998 The University of North Carolina Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Frey, Sylvia R., 1935 Come shouting to Zion : African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 / by Sylvia R.Frey and Betty Wood. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8078-2375-9 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4681-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Afro-AmericansSouthern StatesReligion. 2. BlacksCaribbean AreaReligion. I. Wood, Betty. II. Title. BR563.N4F74 1998 277.5'07'08996073-dc21 97-21477 CIP 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
1 Africa: The Introduction of Christianity
1
2 The Americas: The Survival of African Religions
35
3 The Anglicans: Early Attempts at Conversion
63
4 The First Awakening: Patterns of Founding
80
5 The Great Revival: Patterns of Worship and the Formation of Cultural Identity
118
6 Religious Transformation: Growth and Separation
149
7 The Religious Community: Religious Values and Family Needs
182
Afterword
209
Notes
215
Selected Bibliography
253
Index
279
Page vii
Maps
1 West and West Central Africa in the Eighteenth Century
5
2 The Caribbean
41
3 Major Centers of Black Baptist Churches, 1800
151
4 Major Centers of Black Baptist Churches, 1830
155
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Acknowledgments
The writing of Come Shouting to Zion was both a collaborative and a collegial process. We had a good deal of help and advice from a great number of people in the profession. Unfortunately we cannot mention everyone who aided our work, but we would like to recognize those to whom we owe a particular debt. Earlier work by historians, anthropologists, and historians of religion of Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South provided a compass for our work. The help of librarians and archivists was indispensable to our research. We are particularly grateful to the following for directing us to important collections: Michael Plunkett of the Manuscript Division of the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia, Reverend Edwin Schell and his assistant Betty Ammons of the United Methodist Historical Society at Lovely Lane, Phoebe Jacobsen of the Maryland State Archives, Darlene Slater of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Linda McCurdy of the Special Collections Department of the Perkins Library of Duke University, Ann Smith and the staff of the Georgia Historical Society, and Godfrey Waller, Superintendent of the Manuscripts Reading Room, University of Cambridge Library.
Colleagues in the profession generously shared notes and little-known sources with us. It is a great personal pleasure for us to acknowledge the generosity of Robert Calhoon, Blair Pogue, Constance Schulz, and especially John Thornton, who allowed us to use his translations of important African manuscript sources. Mary Turner, Ira Berlin, and John Thornton each read all or parts of the manuscript. Their critical readings prevented
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us from making grievous errors, and each of them has had a fundamental impact on the book. Cora Presley of Tulane University and Richard Simmons of the University of Birmingham offered valuable insights that decisively influenced our interpretations on several major points. Their generosity and collegiality does not make them liable for any of our errors or lapses in judgment.
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