Embracing Protestantism : black identities in the Atlantic world / John W. Catron.

By: Catron, John W [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813055701Subject(s): Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Religion | Christians, Black -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History | Protestantism -- History | African diaspora -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Embracing Protestantism : black identities in the Atlantic world.DDC classification: 270.7089/96 LOC classification: BR563.N4 | C385 2016Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Christianity in Atlantic Africa before 1800 -- The favorite of heaven: Antigua and the growth of black Atlantic Christianity -- Early black Atlantic Christianity in the middle colonies -- Black evangelical diaspora in the greater Caribbean -- Afro-Christian diaspora in the age of revolution.
Scope and content: By examining eighteenth-century black Christianity in multiple locales and tracing the circuits of black evangelicals as they traveled through Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, Catron examines how many Afro-Protestants maintained cultural and intellectual ties outside the confines of America's plantation complex and suggests they might be better understood as Atlantic Africans.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Christianity in Atlantic Africa before 1800 -- The favorite of heaven: Antigua and the growth of black Atlantic Christianity -- Early black Atlantic Christianity in the middle colonies -- Black evangelical diaspora in the greater Caribbean -- Afro-Christian diaspora in the age of revolution.

By examining eighteenth-century black Christianity in multiple locales and tracing the circuits of black evangelicals as they traveled through Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, Catron examines how many Afro-Protestants maintained cultural and intellectual ties outside the confines of America's plantation complex and suggests they might be better understood as Atlantic Africans.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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