African religions before slavery

    • [PDF File] Black Slave Gender Roles: How They Were Changed by …

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      For more information, please contact KnightScholar@geneseo.edu. Black Slave Gender Roles: How They Were Changed by Emancipation. Submitted by: Caile Morris. Susie King Taylor’s autobiography A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs puts her in a small group of African American ex-slaves who were able to record their memories of their lives as ...

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    • [PDF File] The Priesthood of the Believers: Quakers and the Abolition of …

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      work Quakers and Slavery in America (1950), the first great modern book that addresses the role of Quakers in anti-slavery agitation (Frost1978, p. 42). Drake provides a breathtaking historical analysis and suggests that “religious and moral grounds” served as the primary impetus behind their position but never expands on this theological ...

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    • [PDF File] African American Christianity - Harvard University

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      Summary: The First Great Awakening led many enslaved people in the United States to convert to Christianity. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, distinct black churches emerged, seeking autonomy from white Christians. These denominations grew and now thrive in the present day. They are historically influenced by various political and religious ...

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    • [PDF File] Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa - Scholars at Harvard

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      Colonial Africa provides a natural laboratory to examine how an external intervention can have lasting impacts on people’s beliefs and val-ues. This study examines the effect of European missionary activities in colonial Africa on the subsequent evolution of culture, as measured by religious beliefs. The empirical results show that ...

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    • [PDF File] in Early Modern West Africa Slavery, Resistance, and Identity

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      Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West AfricaBetween the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than fifteen mil-lion people were uprooted from West Africa and ensl. ved in the trans-Saharan and transatlantic worlds of slavery. The ethnic state of Gajaaga, located in the West African hinterland, offered a doorway to the ...

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    • [PDF File] Collective Degradation: Slavery and the Construction of Race

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      When combined with the more than. 300,000 Africans who arrived in the Americas between 1502 and 1619, we can see that. as many African slaves had already been dispersed across the Atlantic world between. 1441 and 1619 as would arrive in the United States between 1619 and the abolition of the. slave trade in 1808.

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    • [PDF File] Human Sacrifice in Pre-Colonial West Africa - JSTOR

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      Frank Cass, 1966), vol. II, p. 246. HUMAN SACRIFICE IN PRE-COLONIAL WEST AFRICA. British expeditions against Asante in 1896 and Benin in 1897, for example, have demonstrated how grossly exaggerated reports of human sacrifices in these societies were employed to justify the use of military force against.

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    • [PDF File] The relationship between the Methodist church, slavery and …

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      Revolutionary belief regarding slavery and the theory that developed in the early republic. The Methodist church had two distinct periods before the split of the church in 1844: the first from 1760-1800; the second from 1800-1820. Before 1800, the Methodist church was able to metaphorically stand tall against slavery. The issue of slavery plagued

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    • [PDF File] Christian Slavery, Colonialism, and Violence: The Life and …

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      of an African Ex-Slave, 1717–1747 David Kofi Amponsah Journal of Africana Religions, Volume 1, Number 4, 2013, pp. 431-457 (Article) Published by Penn State University Press For additional information about this article ... slavery were present in the southern part of the Gold Coast before, during, and after the Atlantic slave trade.4 Thus ...

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    • [PDF File] Cutting Across Space and Time: Obeah’s Service to Jamaica’s …

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      Failure to totally insulate Afro-Jamaicans against the nineteenth century’s challenges prevented Obeah’s eradication, a central focus in the missionary thrust to spread Christianity. Irrespective of how the ungodly tag was pegged to or MyalObeah, these traditions withstood criticism as they offered Afro-Jamaicans avenues to respond and …

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    • [PDF File] Early Missionaries’ Interaction with the African Worldviews …

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      gospel to the Africans. Africa has a complex history of other traditional religions before the coming of Christianity. Christianity then, is a religion that will either shape the African religions or replace them. That has to be a struggle of conviction and conversion into the new religion known as Christianity. This article

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    • [PDF File] Christian Slavery: Protestant Missions and Slave …

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      Inner Slavery and Spiritual Freedom: German Pietism and the Critique of Black Christianity on St. Thomas, 1730-1735 146 5. ‘They Call Me Obea’: Literacy, Marriage, and Death in the Moravian Missions of St. Thomas & ... Religions Colloquium at Harvard Divinity School, and I would like to thank all of the members of NARC for reading multiple ...

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    • [PDF File] OBEDIENT TO GOD: CHRISTIAN JUSTIFICATIONS FOR …

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      ention to the role pastors. justifiable for Christians. Thornton Stringfellow raised the most important question for Christians in the. Antebellum South when he said, “If slavery be thus sinful, it behooves all Christians who. sin, to repent in dust and ashes, and wash their hands of it.”3 The en. reenterprise hinged.

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    • [PDF File] Introduction To Various African Kingdoms The Lost Libraries …

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      Forms of slavery have existed on all continents at different times in history – for instance, as a means of exploiting those captured in war – especially where there were labour shortages and an abundance of land. Slavery was certainly present in some African societies before the rise of Islam. In ancient Kemet, for example, there are

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    • [PDF File] African American Religions, 1500–2000 - Cambridge …

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      African American Religions, 1500–2000 This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of ... Black Religion, Christian Freedom, and Racial Slavery 128 Colonialism, Temporalities, and Christian Subjectivity 145 Part Two ... Kingdom as they were situated just decades before Dona Beatriz was born. Note that the north is oriented ...

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    • [PDF File] The Construction of the African Slave Identity: Defying …

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      of a distinctive African American collective identity characterized by resistance and rebellion. The African Past While the proposition by white travelers that traditional Africans were lacking in religion is entirely rooted in a racist interpretation of the “Other,” there is a grain of truth to the matter. A native, pre-slavery African ...

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    • [PDF File] Christian Imperialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade - JSTOR

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      don Press, 1994); and Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (New York: Verso, 1997). 128 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 24.1 ... tory of Christianity on the African continent: "An active Christian community existed in Egypt from the earliest days of the religion. By the third century

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    • [PDF File] Our African Heritage

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      as the ancient African martial art of stickfighting or Bois, storytelling, use of herbal or “bush” remedies, the custom of gayap or “each one help one”, and cuisine such as “tum-tum” or pound plantain, benne and hill rice. Source: Laurence, K.O. “The settlement of free negroes in Trinidad before emancipation” Caribbean Quarterly.

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    • [PDF File] Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Barbados - University …

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      quintessential sugar colony, dependent on the labour of African slaves. From about 1650 to 1807, when Britain abolished the slave trade, over 350,000 Africans landed on the shores of this 166 square-mile island (by ... Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 19, No. 1, April 1998, pp.129-141 PUBLISHED BY FRANK CASS, LONDON

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    • [PDF File] SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA

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      In Central Africa the Lunda slavers ravaged large areas of the Congo Basin. Kidnapping was practiced among the Lozi of Zambia and the Sena of Mozambique. The Amharas of Ethiopia raided and kidnapped the peoples of the East and Central African interior. Tribute paying was a very common practice in pre-colonial Africa.

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    • [PDF File] Crises of Life in African Religion and Christianity

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      African Religion1 Preamble African Religion (AR) is an indigenous system of beliefs and practices integrated into the culture and worldviews of the African peoples. Although diverse in its local manifestations, it has common basic elements which testify to its unity regionally and at continental level. Among the main beliefs of AR is the acknowl -

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    • [PDF File] Defying Social Death: The Multiple Configurations of …

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      Ga., 1997); Wilma A. Dunaway, The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipa-tion (Cambridge, 2003); Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia, 2004); Emily West, Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina (Urbana, Ill., 2004).

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    • [PDF File] Traditional African religions and their influences on the …

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      foremost members of traditional religions before any other religion. It is within this backdrop that a foreigner can begin to learn about Africans and their cultures. Any attempt at learning about the African peoples and their cultures without considering religions, the bedrock of those cultures, would be shallow and futile.

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