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The Religon of the American Negro Slave: His Attitude Toward Life and Death

ByGold Refine Wilson

I propose to discuss the religious behavior of the American Negro slave, between 1619 and the close of the Civil War, first, by a brief discussion of the religion of the tribes in Africa, and the tendency of the old habits and traditions to maintain themselves among the American slave; second, by a consideration of what the slave found in America, and his contact with another religious culture called Christianity; and third, by a description of the slave's reaction to a Christian environment, or what the slave's religious behavior really was. 1 My thesis is that the religion of Africa disappeared from the consciousness of the American slave; that the slave himself, by contact with a new environment, became a decidedly different person, having a new religion, a primitive Christianity, with the central emphasis, not upon this world, but upon heaven. 2

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Publication Date
Mar 25, 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781304978004
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Gold Refine Wilson

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EPUB

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