What the Slaves Believed: Recollections of Faith and Religion in Wpa Slave Narratives

by Tom Head

Drawing from the WPA Slave Narrative Collection, this volume sifts through more than 2,300 interviews with survivors of slavery in order to document their religious lives through primary sources. * Provides a comprehensive survey of the religious beliefs of slaves in their own words * Explains, describes, and anthologizes the religious lives of slaves on a scale not realized in earlier works * Shows how the information gleaned from the WPA narratives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440838402
• ISBN13: 9781440838408
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 426 Pages