Gobbets

• Ball Ch 10
• Church discipline records
• Missionary records
• Kemble extract

Questions

How much of their African religious practices did slaves retain in the Americas? Why did slaves come to accept Christianity? What part did evangelical Christianity play in everyday slave life?

Core Reading

• Raboteau, Albert J., Slave religion: the invisible institution in the antebellum South. [ebook] Part 5
• William Johnson '"A delusive clothing": Christian conversion in the antebellum slave community' JNH 82 (1997)

E-Resources

• Tim Lockley "David Margrett: A Black Missionary in the Revolutionary Atlantic." Journal of American Studies, 46.3 (August 2012), pp. 729-745
• Donald G. Mathews 'Charles Colcock Jones and the Southern Evangelical Crusade to Form a Biracial Community' The Journal of Southern History 41, 3 (1975), 299-320
• Brenda E. Stevenson "Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca down": Enslaved Women, Religion, and Social Power in the Antebellum South' Journal of African American History 90, (2005), 345-367
• Little, Thomas J., 'George Liele and the rise of independent black Baptist churches in the lower South and Jamaica', S&A, XVI, (1995), 188-204.
• Lambert, Frank 'I saw the book talk: slave readings of the first great awakening' JNH 67.4 (1992) 185-198. 
• Bailey, Kenneth, 'Protestantism and Afro-Americans in the old South: another look' JSH 41 (1987) 451-472 

Further reading

• Frey, Sylvia R., Water from the rock: back resistance in a revolutionary age. 
• Oakes, James, The Ruling Race ch 4
• Sobel, Mechal, Trabelin' on: the slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faith. 
• Sobel, Mechal, The world they made together pt 3
• Boles, John B., The great revival, 1787-1805. 
• Bruce, Dickson D., And they all sang hallelujah: plain-folk camp-meeting religion, 1800-1845. 
• Mathews, Donald G., Religion in the old South. 
• Frey, Sylvia & Wood, Betty, Come Shouting to Zion:African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 
• Mathews, Donald, Slavery & Methodism (pt 1) 
• Sensbach, Jon, A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World, 1763-1840
• Snay, Mitchell, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the antebellum South
• Cornelius, Janet, Slave Missions and the black church in the Antebellum South
• McKivigan, John & Snay, Mitchel, Religion and the Antebellum Debate over slavery
• Lyerly, Cynthia, Methodism and the Southern Mind 
• Wood, Betty, 'For their satisfaction or redress: African Americans and church discipline in the early South' in Clinton & Gillespie (eds), The Devil's Lane 
• Frazier, E. Franklin, The Negro church in America