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This collection of 19,000 pages from approximately 100 works (including autobiographies, spirituals, sermons, church reports, religious periodicals, and denominational histories) traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. The materials are taken primarily from published works and observations by African American authors on ways the black community of the South adapted evangelical Christianity and made it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival. Later works authored by African American church and lay men and women tell the post-emancipation story of the growth of churches and their sustaining role in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and bigotry. Also included are the early twentieth-century assessments of black scholars concerning the Church's role in American history and society.
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