This classic work is an important introduction to the efforts of whites to evangelize African Americans in the antebellum South. First published in 1979, Wrestlin Jacob offers important insights into the intersection of black and white religious history in the South.Erskine Clarke provides two arenas one urban and one rural that show what happened when white ministers tried to bring black slaves into the fold of Christianity.Clarke illustrates how the good intentions and vain illusions of the white preachers, coupled with the degradation and cultural strength of...
This classic work is an important introduction to the efforts of whites to evangelize African Americans in the antebellum South.
In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths. Along the way they encountered not only many diverse landscapes, peoples, and cultures, but also many individuals on their own odysseys--including Paul Sansay, a former slave from Savannah; Mworeh Mah, a brilliant Grebo leader, and his beautiful daughter, Mary...
In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year odyssey ...
The complex character of a South Carolina low country Calvinist community guides Clarke to an exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America.
The complex character of a South Carolina low country Calvinist community guides Clarke to an exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition...
