An invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves. GOD STRUCK ME DEAD is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. The narratives were gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive 1930s study on race relations.
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Reveals the Reality of the Experience of the Holy Spirit,
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This review is from: God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves (William Bradford Collection from the Pilgrim Press) (Paperback)
this is an amazing book, ranking up there with Buber's 'Ecstatic Confessions', Kapleau's 'Three Pillars of Zen', and the 1960's film 'Holy Ghost People', as being a valuable collection of authentic religious experience. Thankfully, African Americans have preserved the experience of the Holy Spirit described in this book in Gospel Music. The traditions described in this book deserve to be revived and preserved, i.e. 'the mourner's bench', and singing in a circle out in a field at night. It seems to me this book helps to show that we are all slaves to the world and society until freed by the holy spirit.
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Religious ceremonies among the Negro primitive Baptists in central Tennessee are very exclusive, certainly in regard to "sinners." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ole Missey, Uncle Link, God Almighty, Uncle Alex, Aunt Bet, Civil War, Holy Ghost, White Creek Pike, Blueback Speller, Brother Charlie, Christ Jesus, Colonel Wilson, Felt the Darkness, Slavery Was Hell New!
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Religious ceremonies among the Negro primitive Baptists in central Tennessee are very exclusive, certainly in regard to "sinners." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ole Missey, Uncle Link, God Almighty, Uncle Alex, Aunt Bet, Civil War, Holy Ghost, White Creek Pike, Blueback Speller, Brother Charlie, Christ Jesus, Colonel Wilson, Felt the Darkness, Slavery Was Hell New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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