The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 295 páginas A striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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... Garnet, Frederick Douglass, Richard Allen, and the abolitionist firebrand David Walker all assert that “heathenism” was predominant in the slave community.7 Never- theless the impact of Protestant Evangelicalism on African- American ...
... Garnet engaged in public debate over a campaign to solicit funds to provide Bibles for slaves in the South. Their confrontation was a rematch of sorts. The two had first debated in Buffalo, New York, in 1843. At that time the fiery and ...
... Garnet were both African Americans. Both had escaped slavery from Maryland's Eastern Shore. But their respective experiences of slavery, literacy, and religion — and so their respective experiences of the Bible — were profoundly ...
... Garnet and his colleagues were now proposing to send to the South. Other contemporary ex-slaves corroborated Douglass's testimony. The fugitive slave William Wells Brown bore witness to the currency of this perverse species of biblical ...
... Garnet . Garnet , for his part , saw the critical spirit of the Bible as irrepressible : to make the Bible available to slaves in the South was tantamount to making a gift of the book of Southern Christianity that bore the seeds of the ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |
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The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |