William Knibb -- Freedom Fighter
Author : Gordon Arthur Catherall
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Gordon Arthur Catherall
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : John Howard Hinton
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Baptist
ISBN :
Author : David W. Bebbington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 113484767X
Bebbington presents a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting. Focusing on patterns of change affecting all churches, it details how the movement has been moulded by British culture.
Author : Ian Sellers
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Tom Zoellner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674984307
From a New York Times bestselling author, a gripping account of the slave rebellion that led to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the rebels lost their military gamble, their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle for freedom in the British Atlantic. The daring and suffering of the Jamaicans galvanized public opinion throughout the empire, triggering a decisive turn against slavery. For centuries bondage had fed Britain’s appetite for sugar. Within two years of the Christmas rebellion, slavery was formally abolished. Island on Fire is a dramatic day-by-day account of this transformative uprising. A skillful storyteller, Tom Zoellner goes back to the primary sources to tell the intimate story of the men and women who rose up and tasted liberty for a few brief weeks. He provides the first full portrait of the rebellion's enigmatic leader, Samuel Sharpe, and gives us a poignant glimpse of the struggles and dreams of the many Jamaicans who died for liberty.
Author : Bea Joseph
Publisher :
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography
ISBN :
A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
Author : Noel Leo Erskine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195369130
In Plantation Church, Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about the "Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive Afro-Caribbean population was able to establish a form of Christianity that preserved African Gods and practices, but fused them with Christian teachings, resulting in religions such as Cuba's Santería. Despite their common ancestry, the Black religious experience in the U.S. was markedly different because African Americans were a political and cultural minority. The Plantation Church became a place of solace and resistance that provided its members with a sense of kinship, not only to each other but also to their ancestral past. Despite their common origins, the Caribbean and African American Church are almost never studied together. This book investigates the parallel histories of these two strands of the Black Church, showing where their historical ties remain strong and where different circumstances have led them down unexpectedly divergent paths. The result will be a work that illuminates the histories, theologies, politics, and practices of both branches of the Black Church. This project presses beyond the nation state framework and raises intercultural and interregional questions with implications for gender, race and class. Noel Leo Erskine employs a comparative method that opens up the possibility of rethinking the language and grammar of how Black churches have been understood in the Americas and extends the notion of church beyond the United States. The forging of a Black Christianity from sources African and European, allows for an examination of the meaning of church when people of African descent are culturally and politically in the majority. Erskine also asks the pertinent question of what meaning the church holds when the converse is true: when African Americans are a cultural and political minority.
Author : Julie Whidden Long
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780881461091
Tells the story of fourteen Baptist heroes who led outstanding Christian lives while serving as Baptists. This book features: a timeline of events covering 400 years of Baptist life in several countries; an introduction that defines a Baptist hero; and, dozens of illustrations and sidebars for terminology and other information.
Author : Paul R. Dekar
Publisher : Smyth & Helwys Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Who are our Baptist saints? Paul Dekar, Centenary Professor at McMaster Divinity College, answers this question with his captivating stories of the groups and individuals who spoke out as Christ's witnesses of peace.
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release :
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Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.