Embracing Protestantism: black identities in the Atlantic world

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...

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Main Author: Catron, John W. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton University Press of Florida [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Reviews:[Rezension von: Catron, John W., Embracing Protestantism: Black Identities in the Atlantic World] (2020) (Bulthuis, Kyle T.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Atlantic / Blacks / Protestantism / Religious identity / History 1600-1800
Further subjects:B Blacks (Atlantic Ocean Region) Religion
B African Diaspora History
B Christians, Black (Atlantic Ocean Region) History
B Protestantism History
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Summary: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
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
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 269-297
ISBN:0813061636