The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925

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The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925, documents the growth of the "Black Church" in the American South and how evangelical Christianity was modified by the African-American community to encourage dreams of freedom, the importance of community, and the desire for personal survival. Included are materials that document the conflicts in the church caused by slavery. Also of interest are some slave narratives that document the role of the church in slave communities. The collection was compiled from printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

An Introduction to the Church in the Southern Black Community

The New Nation — 1780-1815
Expansion and Reform — 1801-1861
The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
Development of the Industrial United States, 1876-1915

American Life Histories, 1936-1940
African American Perspectives, 1818-1907
African American Odyssey
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

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