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"A peculiar people", slave religion and community-culture among the Gullahs, Margaret Washington Creel

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"A peculiar people", slave religion and community-culture among the Gullahs, Margaret Washington Creel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

"A peculiar people"

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

470699354

Responsibility statement

Margaret Washington Creel

Series statement

The American social experience series, 7

Sub title

slave religion and community-culture among the Gullahs

Summary

Introduction -- Prologue -- Part 1. The African background -- Gullah roots -- The socioreligious heritage -- Part 2. Early Carolina's religious environment, 1670-1775 -- Missionaries and masters -- Christianity, bondage, and the Great Awakening -- Part 3. Christianity and autonomy: a struggle in black and white -- An almost chosen people -- "Religion of the warm heart": plantation missions and Methodist impact -- To make them better slaves: Baptist persuasion, 1830-1861 -- Part 4. The socioreligious community: an African-Christian synthesis -- Elements of the head and heart: Gullah interpretations of Christianity -- Folk religion in the slave quarters -- Gullah attitudes toward death and the supernatural -- Epilogue -- Appendixes: A. Ethnic origins of Carolina slaves ; B. Missionary's letter ; C. Baptist churches ; D. The deity ; E. Gullah folkways

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Slave religion and community-culture among the Gullahs

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