The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during Slavery and the Post-Civil War Era: There's a Bright Side Somewhere PDF
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The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during Slavery and the Post–Civil War Era Rhetoric, Race, and Religion SeriesEditor:AndreE.Johnson,UniversityofMemphis Thisseriesexploresandexaminestheintersectionofrhetoric,race,andreligion.Volumes in this series demonstrate how language both shapes race and/or religion and how race and/orreligionshapesthelanguageorrhetoricweuse.Scholarsexaminethesephenome- nafromahistoricalandcontemporaryperspective. TitlesintheSeries WhatMoviesTeachaboutRace:Exceptionalism,Erasure,andEntitlement,byRoslynM. Satchel WomenBishopsandRhetoricsofShalom:AWholePeace,byLelandG.Spencer TheWomanistPreacher:ProclaimingWomanistRhetoricfromthePulpit,byKimberlyP. Johnson TheMotifofHopeinAfricanAmericanPreachingduringSlaveryandthePost–CivilWar Era:There’saBrightSideSomewhere,byWayneE.CroftSr. The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during Slavery and the Post–Civil War Era There’s a Bright Side Somewhere Wayne E. Croft Sr. LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2017byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataAvailable ISBN978-1-4985-3647-9(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-1-4985-3648-6(electronic) TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ToLisa, Herchildrenariseup,andcallherblessed; herhusbandalso,andhepraisesher Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 TheMotifofHopeinBlackScholarship 1 2 TheMotifofHopeinSlavePreaching(1800–1864) 31 3 TheMotifofHopeinPost–CivilWarPreachingofDaniel AlexanderPayne 73 4 TheMotifofHopeinPost–CivilWarPreachingofJohn Jasper 95 Bibliography 121 Index 133 AbouttheAuthor 141 vii
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