Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter ...

The "religion of the south" and slavery. Whether slavery was inconsistent with Christian practice was debated by white people, but African Americans uniformly ...

The religion of the slaves was both institutional and noninstitu- tional, visible and invisible, formally organized and spontaneously adapted. Regular Sunday ...

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion.

In the final chapter the author discusses slave religion in relation to docility and rebellion. While he recognizes that slave religion was in a certain sense.