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- Title
"Swarms of Negroes Comeing about My Door": Black Christianity in Early Dutch and English North America.
- Authors
Bonomi, Patricia U.
- Abstract
The article explores the religious life of Blacks and slaves in the Dutch and English colonies of North America in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries prior to the First Great Awakening. Topics include the influence of Caribbean, African, Iberian religions on Black Christianity; Black Muslims and Christianity; Protestantism; and the influence of the religious beliefs of slaveholders upon slaves.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICA; AFRICAN American religions; UNITED States religions; COLONIAL United States, ca. 1600-1775; RELIGIOUS life of enslaved persons; BLACK Christians; DUTCH colonies; BRITISH colonies; SLAVEHOLDERS; SLAVERY &; religion; AFRICAN American history; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2016, Vol 103, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jaw007