Resources

1. This Far by Faith
2. Christianity in the Emergent Africa
3. "A Delusive Clothing": Christian Conversion in the Antebellum Slave Community
4. This far by Faith

References

Floyd, Samuel A. 1991. "Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry." Black Music Research Journal 11, no. 2 (Fall): 265-87.

Floyd, Samuel A. 1995. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.

James, Marcus. 1956. "Christianity in the Emergent Africa." Présence Africaine no. VIII-IX-X: 238-244.

Jones, Bessie, and Bess Lomax Hawes. 1972. Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs and Stories from the Afro­-American Heritage. New York: Harper and Row.

Jones, Douglas A. 2018. "Slave Evangelicalism, Shouting, and the Beginning of African American Writing." Early American Literature 53, no. 1: 69-85.

Raboteau, Albert J. 1978. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press.

Stuckey, Sterling. 1987. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Southern, Eileen. (1971) 1997. The Music of Black Americans, 3rd. ed. New York: W.W. Norton.