Slave Religion (Online) by
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. Analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity.
The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation (Online) by
Demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding of the end times, influenced nearly every major economic and political decision they made in the aftermath of emancipation.
Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830-1870 (Online) by
Argues that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within the antebellum slave community than most scholars currently assert.
Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture by
A book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture.
The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives by
In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades--more than half of which have been long out of print
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by
An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials.
The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (Online) by
The articles in this volume consider the fundamental concerns of gender, sexuality, community, and the Christian ethos of suffering and redemption that are central to any understanding of slave narratives.
Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative by
Examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers.
Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South by
Examines the interactions between white missionaries and slaves in the 1840s and 1850s, and the ways in which blacks used the missions to nurture the formation of the organized black church.
Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy before the Civil War by
Examines the interlocking careers and influence of six black clergymen, two of them fugitive slaves, who lived in antebellum North and protested the racism of the time: Samuel Cornish, Theodore Wright, Charles Ray, Henry Highland Garnet, Amos Beman, and James Pennington
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