Includes bibliographies and index

Contents:

Preface to the Second Edition ix Introduction 1I. From Africa Through Early America 1. Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture / Olaudah Equiano 132. African Religions in Colonial Jamaica / Bryan Edwards 203. Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier / Francis Le Jau 254. "Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" / Jupiter Hammon 345. Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists / George Liele and Andrew Bryan 446. A Black Puritan's Farewell / Lemuel Haynes 52II. Slave Religions in the Antebellum South 7. Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible / Peter Randolph 638. "Proud of the 'Ole Time' Religion" / Sister Kelly 699. Conjuration and Witchcraft / Henry Bibb 7610. "Great Moral Dilemma" / James W.C. Pennington 8111. Religion and Slave Insurrection / Nat Turner 8912. Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ / Frederick Douglass 10213. Slave Songs and Spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson 112III. Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle 14. "Life Experience and Gospel Labors" / Richard Allen 13915. Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Christopher Rush 15516. A Female Preacher among the African Methodists / Jarena Lee 16417. African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State / Nathaniel Paul 18518. "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion" / David Walker 19319. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston" / Maria Stewart 20220. "To the Citizens of New York" / Peter Williams 21121. Black Churches in New York City, 1840 / Charles B. Ray 21822. Protesting the "Negro Pew" / Jeremiah Asher 22423. "I Will Not Live a Slave" / Jermain W. Loguen 22824. "Welcome to the Ransomed" / Daniel Alexander Payne 232IV. Freedom's Time of Trial: 1865-World War I 25. From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen / Isaac lane 24526. "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" / Lucius H. Holsey 25227. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South / William Wells Brown 25628. "Education in the A.M.E. Church" / Daniel Alexander Payne 26129. The Tr