By Albert J. Raboteau

ISBN-10: 0195174127

ISBN-13: 9780195174120

ISBN-10: 0195174135

ISBN-13: 9780195174137

Twenty-five years after its unique book, Slave Religion is still a vintage within the research of African American heritage and faith. In a brand new bankruptcy during this anniversary version, writer Albert J. Raboteau displays upon the origins of the ebook, the reactions to it during the last twenty-five years, and the way he may write it in a different way this day. utilizing quite a few first and second-hand sources-- a few goal, a few own, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He provides the narratives of the slaves themselves, in addition to missionary experiences, shuttle money owed, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to explain the daily non secular existence within the slave groups. Slave Religion is a must-read for an individual short of a whole photograph of this "invisible institution."

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