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Top : Institutions : Libraries : Europe and North America : North America : North Carolina : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Church in the Southern Black Community Name of Collection: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Church in the Southern Black Community URL of Collection: http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/index.html Name of Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institution URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ Description: "The Church in the Southern Black Community" traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches' conversion efforts,especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contradictions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community,and personal survival. Main language of the collection: English Type of Material: Printed documents

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