Author: Gustavus L. FOSTERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six-score Years
Author: Gustavus L. FOSTERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Uncle Johnson
Author: Gustavus Lemuel Foster“Uncle Johnson”: or, one hundred and twenty years old
Author: To Tell a Free Story
Author: William L. AndrewsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054636
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black Americans. Andrews includes but also goes beyond slave narratives to analyze spiritual biographies, criminal confessions, captivity stories, travel accounts, interviews, and memoirs. As he shows, Black writers continuously faced the fact that northern whites often refused to accept their stories and memories as sincere, and especially distrusted portraits of southern whites as inhuman. Black writers had to silence parts of their stories or rely on subversive methods to make facts tellable while contending with the sensibilities of the white editors, publishers, and readers they relied upon and hoped to reach.
The Church
Author: The Chance of Salvation
Author: Lincoln A. MullenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674975626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Chance of Salvation offers a history of conversions in the United States which shows how religious identity came to be a matter of choice. Shortly after the American Revolution, people in the United States increasingly encountered an expanded array of religious options. Evangelical Protestants began an effort to convert Americans, while developing new practices that emphasized conversion as an immediate choice. Their missionary effort extended to Native American nations such as the Cherokee in the Southeast, who received Christianity on their own terms. Enslaved and newly freed African Americans likewise created a variety of Christian conversion that was centered on religious hope and eschatological expectation. Mormons, drawing on earlier Protestant practices and beliefs, enthusiastically proselytized for a new tradition that emphasized individual choice and free will. By uncovering the way that religious identity is structured as an obligatory decision, this book explains why Americans change their religions so much, and why the United States is both highly religious in terms of religious affiliation and very secular in the sense that no religion is an unquestioned default.--
Descriptive Catalogue of the Publications of the Presbyterian Board of Publication
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of PublicationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Descriptive Catalogue of the Publications of the Presbyterian Board of Publication
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School WorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Author: 
Author: Richard Baxter