Uplifting the people three centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama - Fallin, Wilson (University of Alabama Press, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Slaves, Afro-Baptist faith, and Black preachers -- God's gift of freedom -- Church life, expansion, and denominational concerns -- Education, Black nationalism, and sociopolitical concerns -- Theology and leadership -- Protest, growth, and revivalism -- Urbanization and economic self-help -- Between the wars -- Rising militancy -- Protest and reorganization -- Continuity, preservation, and challenge
Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention & mdash;its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession, soul-travel, and rebirth with the evangelical faith of Baptists. The denomination emphasizes a conversion experience that brings salvation, spiritual freedom, love, joy, and patience, and also stresses liberation from slavery and oppression and highlights the exodus experience