Add to ORKGAn examination of the history of Methodism and slave religion intro-duces two disparate starting points, as distant from each other as the Holy Club of Oxford, England and the warmer regions of West Africa. The African slave in the United States approached Christianity, or specifically, Methodism, through a rich cultural tradition and heritage of African reli-gion. The heritage of the dance rituals and spirit possessions of the Yoruba religions, along with the uprooting and distorting of those traditions by the exploitation of slavery, was the context into which African slaves appropri-ated Methodism as their own. Yet, the history of Methodism and slavery is also the story of John Wesley, Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, and the Christmas Confe...
In 1787, roughly a decade after America’s independence from Great Britain and almost a century befor...
Second part has title: The history of the Wesleyan Methodist connection of America. With an appendix...
In 1994, Nathan Hatch challenged historians to conduct more research on American Methodism, engagi...
Slavery in the United States is an area in history that has been thoroughly researched and interpret...
This paper is a detail of slave trade and how it impacted Africans and specifically how it became a ...
From its quit arrival in the British colonies of North America in the 1760s, Methodism unexpectedly ...
From its quit arrival in the British colonies of North America in the 1760s, Methodism unexpectedly ...
Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this sig...
Assesses the missionary work of the Methodist Church, as it relates to slavery in the American South...
2 Christianity has been a central part of the African-American experience since Southern slaveholder...
Summarizes the growth of the Methodist Church in colonial and early national America
Was the role of religion specific to the times of slavery? Once slavery had ended, would there no lo...
This thesis examines African spirituality and its influence on the lives of enslaved Africans in...
Traditional scholarship would assert that during the Civil War, African American slaves converted to...
Whether as slaves or as free blacks, African-Americans faced immense contradictions between the teac...
In 1787, roughly a decade after America’s independence from Great Britain and almost a century befor...
Second part has title: The history of the Wesleyan Methodist connection of America. With an appendix...
In 1994, Nathan Hatch challenged historians to conduct more research on American Methodism, engagi...
Slavery in the United States is an area in history that has been thoroughly researched and interpret...
This paper is a detail of slave trade and how it impacted Africans and specifically how it became a ...
From its quit arrival in the British colonies of North America in the 1760s, Methodism unexpectedly ...
From its quit arrival in the British colonies of North America in the 1760s, Methodism unexpectedly ...
Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this sig...
Assesses the missionary work of the Methodist Church, as it relates to slavery in the American South...
2 Christianity has been a central part of the African-American experience since Southern slaveholder...
Summarizes the growth of the Methodist Church in colonial and early national America
Was the role of religion specific to the times of slavery? Once slavery had ended, would there no lo...
This thesis examines African spirituality and its influence on the lives of enslaved Africans in...
Traditional scholarship would assert that during the Civil War, African American slaves converted to...
Whether as slaves or as free blacks, African-Americans faced immense contradictions between the teac...
In 1787, roughly a decade after America’s independence from Great Britain and almost a century befor...
Second part has title: The history of the Wesleyan Methodist connection of America. With an appendix...
In 1994, Nathan Hatch challenged historians to conduct more research on American Methodism, engagi...