After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915

by John M. Giggie

Book Overview

After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after freedom. It takes on the widely overlooked period between the end of Reconstruction and World War I to examine the sacred world of ex-slaves and their descendants living in the region more densely settled than any other by blacks living in this era, the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta. Drawing on a rich range of local memoirs, newspaper accounts, photographs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195304039
• ISBN13: 9780195304039
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"