Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery

by Noel Leo Erskine

Book Overview

Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about "the Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive Afro-Caribbean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195369130
• ISBN13: 9780195369137
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"