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  • Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.
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    Some memoirs of the life of Job the son of Solomon the high priest of Boonda in Africa, who was a slave about two years in Maryland, and afterwards being brought to England, was set free and sent to his native land in the year 1734

    Bluett, Thomas
    Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.
    Date Issued or Published
    1734
    Copyright
    COPYRIGHT UNDETERMINED
    Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.
  • Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.
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    Trabelin' on : the slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faith

    Sobel, Mechal
    Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.
    Date Issued or Published
    1988
    Copyright
    IN COPYRIGHT
    Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.
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