I Know It Was the Blood: Prophetic Initiation and Retributive Justice in the Narratives of John Marrant, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass

This article emphasizes the generative impact of West African religious culture on early African American Christians by analyzing the use of two symbols, wilderness and blood, in the autobiographical accounts of John Marrant, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. I use Theophus Smith's notion of...

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Main Author: Saville, Alphonso F. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2019]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 234-254
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Popular belief / Influence / The Americas / Blacks / Christianity
B Marrant, John 1755-1791 / Turner, Nat 1800-1831 / Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 / Autobiography / Wilderness areas (Motif) / Blood (Motif)
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BS Traditional African religions
CB Christian life; spirituality
FD Contextual theology
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBQ North America
NBK Soteriology
TJ Modern history
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