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Book Synopsis Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery by : William Henry Holcombe
Download or read book Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery written by William Henry Holcombe and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proslavery argument suggesting that African Americans are barbarians undeserving of freedom.
Book Synopsis Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery by : William H. Holcombe
Download or read book Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery written by William H. Holcombe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery What a puzzle is man upon this planet to the Christian philosopher! What varieties of form, color, habits, and capacities! What differences in government, in religion, in language, in private and public manners and customs! All degrees and shades of white, black, yellow, and red! Some progressing, some retrograding, - the most of them perfectly stagnant as to thought and life! Is there no thread to this labyrinth of wonders - no key to these mysteries? It is commonly supposed that human nature is, and always has been, the same everywhere - that all men are fundamentally organized alike, have similar affections and understandings; and think and will in the same manner under analogous or identical circumstances. The same influences, it is supposed, would produce about the same results everywhere, and at all times. Consequently it is argued that all men are created equal, and ultimately designed for our own type of civilization, which it is their right to acquire, and their duty to achieve. Is this so? Is this crude and grossly material way of looking at human nature satisfactory? Does it explain any thing? Why are some men white and some black, some civilized and some heathen, some progressive and some hopelessly torpid? How came the ancient civilizations to perish, and in what and why did they differ from our modern systems? Why does the Indian become extinct, and why is the African enslaved? These and a thousand similar questions can never be answered by that philosophy, which supposes that men are always equal and similar, and that the race has been ever gradually developing upward, under favoring natural influences, from barbarism into civilization and Christianity. We have at last, by the mercy of God, and the instrumentality of Swedenborg, a key to the spiritual philosophy of history. There is no true key to any thing but a spiritual key; for the sphere of causes lies always in the spiritual world, and effects can never be understood by studying them only from their natural or physical side. We can form no true conception of the philosophy of history, or of the causes and uses of African Slavery, until we employ the key which Swedenborg has given us. The human mind contains three distinct or discrete degrees of life and thought - the celestial, the spiritual, and the natural, and all these are inserted, like casket within casket, into the sensual-corporeal sphere, an investment of time and space. We are connected by these discrete degrees with the three great heavens and their opposite hells, and we go after death to that heaven or hell, corresponding to the degree which has been opened in us by our life in the world. So that we bear within us the germs of three different natures - so different, that they do not understand, nor see, nor communicate with each other hereafter, save by correspondence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Book Synopsis Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery by : Holcombe William H (William Henry)
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Book Synopsis African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction by : Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Download or read book African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction written by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities in the face of limited or non-existent freedom. In this Very Short Introduction, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. explores the history and circumstances of African American religion through three examples: conjure, African American Christianity, and African American Islam. He argues that the phrase "African American religion" is meaningful only insofar as it describes how through religion, African Americans have responded to oppressive conditions including slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the pervasive and institutionalized discrimination that exists today. This bold claim frames his interpretation of the historical record of the wide diversity of religious experiences in the African American community. He rejects the common tendency to racialize African American religious experiences as an inherent proclivity towards religiousness and instead focuses on how religious communities and experiences have developed in the African American community and the context in which these developments took place. About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.
Book Synopsis The Psychic Hold of Slavery by : Soyica Diggs Colbert
Download or read book The Psychic Hold of Slavery written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present—and vice versa—the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death. Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or debate how to best convey that black lives matter. The Psychic Hold of Slavery thus raises provocative questions about how we behold the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack domination.
Download or read book The Lost Gospel Q written by Marcus Borg and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the original teachings of Jesus written by his contemporaries and early followers
Book Synopsis Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery (Classic Reprint) by : William H. Holcombe
Download or read book Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery (Classic Reprint) written by William H. Holcombe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery African. He says that the African is of the celestial type. Grossly sen sual and barbarian as he evidently is in his outward nature, the remains which lie imbedded in his spiritual structure are of the celestial order. He is organically connected with the highest heaven and the deepest hell, as no other man or race of men upon this earth ever has been or can be. Proofs of his innate celestial genius are apparent in his ineradicable childishness, his light-heartedness, simplicity, credulity, and timidity, in his passion for music and dancing, in his forgiving temper, and in that beautiful willingness to serve, which psychologically distinguishes him from almost all other races. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Flash of the Spirit by : Robert Farris Thompson
Download or read book Flash of the Spirit written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.
Book Synopsis Forged in the Fiery Furnace by : Diana L. Hayes
Download or read book Forged in the Fiery Furnace written by Diana L. Hayes and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American spirituality was forged in the fiery furnace of slavery, segregation, and ongoing racial discrimination in both church and society. But African Americans are a people who are strengthened rather than weakened by their experience. This volume traces how African Americans have articulated their faith and love of God in language, song, and daily living. Beginning with its spiritual roots in Africa, Hayes shows how African American spirituality encompassed and incorporated the experience of slavery and the encounter with Christianity. Remarkably, African American slaves were able to find in the religion of their oppressors a message of hope, affirmation, and resistance. Through stories, song, distinctive forms of prayer, celebration, and prophetic witness, Hayes shows how the spirituality of African Americans has nurtured their survival as well as promoting action on behalf of the community and the greater society.
Download or read book Black Magic written by Yvonne P. Chireau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure—the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements—from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both scholars and the general public, Yvonne P. Chireau describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking, in a beautifully written, richly detailed history that presents the voices and experiences of African Americans and shows how magic has informed their culture. Focusing on the relationship between Conjure and Christianity, Chireau shows how these seemingly contradictory traditions have worked together in a complex and complementary fashion to provide spiritual empowerment for African Americans, both slave and free, living in white America. As she explores the role of Conjure for African Americans and looks at the transformations of Conjure over time, Chireau also rewrites the dichotomy between magic and religion. With its groundbreaking analysis of an often misunderstood tradition, this book adds an important perspective to our understanding of the myriad dimensions of human spirituality.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas by : Robert L. Paquette
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas written by Robert L. Paquette and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World, written by a team of leading international contributors.
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Book Synopsis Rituals of Resistance by : Jason R. Young
Download or read book Rituals of Resistance written by Jason R. Young and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina during the era of slavery. The choice of these two sites mirrors the historical trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade which, for centuries, transplanted Kongolese captives to the Lowcountry through the ports of Charleston and Savannah. Analyzing the historical exigencies of slavery and the slave trade that sent not only men and women but also cultural meanings, signs, symbols, and patterns across the Atlantic, Young argues that religion operated as a central form of resistance against slavery and the ideological underpinnings that supported it. Through a series of comparative chapters on Christianity, ritual medicine, burial practices, and transmigration, Young details the manner in which Kongolese people, along with their contemporaries and their progeny who were enslaved in the Americas, utilized religious practices to resist the savagery of the slave trade and slavery itself. When slaves acted outside accepted parameters—in transmigration, spirit possession, ritual internment, and conjure—Young explains, they attacked not only the condition of being a slave, but also the systems of modernity and scientific rationalism that supported slavery. In effect, he argues, slave spirituality played a crucial role in the resocialization of the slave body and behavior away from the oppressions and brutalities of the master class. Young's work expands traditional scholarship on slavery to include both the extensive work done by African historians and current interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies, anthropology, and literature. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources from both American and African archives, including slave autobiography, folktales, and material culture, Rituals of Resistance offers readers a nuanced understanding of the cultural and religious connections that linked blacks in Africa with their enslaved contemporaries in the Americas. Moreover, Young's groundbreaking work gestures toward broader themes and connections, using the case of the Kongo and the Lowcountry to articulate the development of a much larger African Atlantic space that connected peoples, cultures, languages, and lives on and across the ocean's waters.
Book Synopsis African Religions by : Jacob K. Olupona
Download or read book African Religions written by Jacob K. Olupona and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
