When I carried this book into a gas-station diner I saw the waitress look at the title and roll her eyes. I turned the book over. But was I ashamed of the gospel? Well, of course not—so I turned its ...

(The Conversation) African-American 'folk' preachers blended homespun sermon and song to offer life lessons on how to survive in a world of inequality and virulent racism. (The Conversation) The first ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.11.2.0113 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/weslmethstud.11.2.0113 Copy URL ABSTRACT John Wesley defined ‘the gospel ...

The first truly African-American musical form, the “Spirituals,” took shape in the 17th and 18th centuries within the generations of slaves born into the tough American experience. Music was a daily ...

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