Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology in the Slave Narratives - Softcover

Hopkins, Dwight N.; Cummings, George C. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883447746 ISBN 13: 9780883447741

Publisher: Orbis Books, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Hopkins, Dwight N., Cummings, George C. L.

About this title

From Library Journal:

This study relies chiefly on the 41 volumes of George P. Rawick's The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Greenwood, 1972), and a collection of interviews with ex-slaves conducted from 1936 to 1938, supplemented by some states' collections and a few other sources. The five essayists analyze the contributions of African American slaves to the Christian faith, their combination of African religion and Christianity, and the gospel of liberation which arose from their experience. This analysis of the slave narratives is carefully nuanced (e.g., while some ex-slaves speak of slavery in positive terms, they do not claim that Christianity supported slavery). This challenging book should be read by people of all races.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0883447746
• ISBN 13: 9780883447741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150