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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. By Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 285 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8078-2375-9. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-8078-4681-3.)

The conversion of African captives and their descendants to Christianity represents one of the most important yet most elusive problems in African American history. Unfolding over the course of two centuries, conversion took place largely outside the purview of whites, and thus beyond the bounds of the documentary record. What documents exist—church minute books, quarterly conference records, reports of itinerant missionaries—are scattered and riddled with dubious, often racist, assumptions. 1

The authors of Come Shouting to Zion grapple with this challenge, and with considerable success. In scarcely two hundred pages, they move from West Africans' first encounters with Christianity in the fifteenth century through the evangelical eruptions of the early-nineteenth-century United States, illuminating some of the ways in which African Americans transformed, and were transformed by, Protestant Christianity. . . .

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