This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism; civil rights; and black theology of today. The documents—many of them rare; out-of-print; or difficult to find—include personal narratives; sermons; letters; protest pamphlets; early denominational histories; journalistic accounts; and theological statements. In this volume Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan’s farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee becomes a female preacher among the African Methodists. Frederick Douglass discusses Christianity and slavery. Isaac Lane preaches among the freedmen. Nannie Helen Burroughs reports on the work of Baptist women. African Methodist bishops deliberate on the Great Migration. Bishop C. H. Mason tells of the Pentecostal experience. Mahalia Jackson recalls the glory of singing at the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King; Jr. writes from the Birmingham jail. Originally published in 1985; this expanded second edition includes new sources on women; African missions; and the Great Migration. Milton C. Sernett provides a general introduction as well as historical context and comment for each document.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Who "owns" the mounds?By S. Crane"Ever since 18th C European settlers stumbled upon the mounds; explainations and interpretations of them -often ridiculous and seldom native American -have appeared as sober scholarship. The native American graves protection and Repatriation Act of 1900( NAGPRA) has intensified the debate over who "owns" the mounds- modern decendants of the Mound Builders or Western archaeologists.This book is the first cogent look at all the issues surrounding the mounds; their history; preservation; and interpretation. using the traditions of those native Americans descended from the MoundBuilders as well as historical and archaeological evidence; Mann places the mounds in their Native cultural context as she examines the fraught issues enveloping them inthe 21st C"Mann is a lecturer of English at Toledo University as well as a noted author and speaker on the culture and history of native Americans of the eastern woodlands.She has a deep store of indigenist scholarship and personal experience."She is therefor conversant with broad range of traditional native American understandings as well as the "eurocentric literature" (scientific or otherwise); and demonstrates that the former are vastly more consistent with available evidence than the latter. Mann reconstructs the reality of Mound Builder culture in the Ohio valley and offers the beginings of an overall history of the interactivity of these oft-ignored people with their modern decendants .She chronicles how archaeologists have sought to maintain control over the artifacts and skeletal remains interred in the mounds"This is another useful contribution to the debate of archaeology; and investigation of ancient Native American culture/ remains as exemplified by Kennewick Man( See David Thomas- "Skull wars" and Roger Downey " The Riddle of the Bones"). It is an issue wherever the culture of First Peoples of a country is alive and well; and merits respect and consultation. Such is the case in Australia and New Zealand too.
