The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 من الصفحات A striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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... became musical, even as the slaves' music became biblical. Through the peculiar liturgies of the Peculiar Institution, slaves could become biblically articulate without the benefit of letters. “No one on the place was taught to read or ...
... became preachers in spite of illiteracy, and their rhetorical prowess came to be the stu¤ of legend. A former slave recounted the following story he had heard about an illiterate slave preacher. We all went to church every Sunday. We ...
... became a favorite of antebellum Southern apologists. Speaking before the Mississippi Democratic State Convention in 1859, Je¤erson Davis defended chattel slavery and the foreign slave trade as the “importation of the race of Ham ...
... became, in the minds of both slave and master, the patron saint of the master class in the antebellum United States. Jupiter Hammond, eighteenth-century slave poet and essayist, was the first African American to have his writings ...
... became a tenet of faith that even the otherwise faithless could hold with zeal. And so African Americans came to accept the Book of the religion while rejecting the religion of the Book. Precisely because divine judgment eschewed the ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |