Bibliography for Black Church History And for Black History in America © 2017, By Bob Kellemen Bibliography Disclaimer: Inclusion in this bibliography does not constitute an endorsement. This is an academic bibliography designed for research purposes. The reader is encouraged to read and research with biblical discernment. Albert, Octavia, ed. The House of Bondage or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves. Reprint edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Alexander, Curtis. Richard Allen: The First Exemplar of African American Education. New York: ECA Associates, 1985. Allen, William, Charles Ware, and Lucy Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. Reprint edition. New York: Peter Smith, 1929. Altschul, Paisius, ed. An Unbroken Circle: Linking Ancient African Christianity to the African- American Experience. St Louis: Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black, 1997. Anderson, Robert. From Slavery to Affluence: Memories of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave. Hemingford, NB: The Hemingford Ledger, 1927. Andrews, Dale. Practical Theology for Black Churches. Louisville: Westminster, 2002. Andrews, William, ed. North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. –––––, ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women’s Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. Anyabwile, Thabiti. The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2007. –––––. The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007. –––––. Reviving the Black Church: A Call to Reclaim a Sacred Institution. Nashville: B&H, 2015. 2 Arnett, B., ed. Proceedings of the Quarto-Centennial Conference of the A.M.E. Church of South Carolina, May 15-17, 1889. Charleston, 1890. Arnett, William. The Quilts of Gee’s Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place. Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002. Ashby, Homer. Our Home Is Over Jordan: A Black Pastoral Theology. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2003. Baker, Lindsay, ed. The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Bailey, Anne. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame. Boston: Beacon, 2005. Battle, Michael. The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirituality. Boston: Blackwell, 2006. Bayliss, John, ed. Black Slave Narratives. New York: Macmillan, 1970. Beckner, Chrisanne. 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History. San Mateo, CA: Bluewood Books, 1995. Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. –––––. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1998. –––––, ed. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipations. New York: New Press, 2000. Berlin, Ira, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, and Leslie Rowland, eds. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York: The New York Press, 1992. Bibb, Henry. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave. Introduction by Lucius Matlack. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2005. Blassingame, John. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. –––––. ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. 3 –––––. “Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems.” Journal of Southern History 41, no. 4 (November 1975): 473-492. Blount, Brian, general ed., and Cain Hope Felder, Clarice Martin, and Emerson Powery, associate eds. True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007. Boles, John, ed. Master and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988. Bontemps, Arna, ed. Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, The Rev. G. W. Offley, and James Smith. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. Bosman, William. A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea. London, 1705. Botkin, B. A., ed. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. New York: Delta Books, 1945. Bradford, Sarah. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People, New York: Corinth Books, 1989. Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Braxton, Brad. No Longer Slaves: Galatians and the African American Experience. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002. Cade, John. “Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves.” The Journal of Negro History 20, (1935): 328- 331. Callahan, Allen. The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2006. Campbell, James. Middle Passage: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005. New York: Penguin, 2007. Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan. Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life. Revised edition. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988. Carretta, Vincent. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Carter, Harold. The Prayer Tradition of Black People. Valley Forge, PA: Judson, 1976. Cerami, Charles. Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 4 Clayton, Ronnie. Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers’ Project. New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Clebsch, William, and Charles Jaekle. Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective. New York: Harper and Row, 1964. Coffin, Charles. The Boys of ’61; or Four Years of Fighting. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1886. Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 1998. Cooper-Lewter, Nicholas, and Henry Mitchell. Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture. Nashville: Abingdon, 1986. Costen, Melva African American Christian Worship. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993, Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery. Edited by Vincent Carretta. New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Curtin, Philip. African Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Davis, Cyprian. The History of Black Catholics in the United States. New York: Crossroads, 1990. Davis, David. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Deramus, Betty. Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad. New York: Atria Books, 2005. Dixie, Quinton, and Cornel West, eds. The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. Douglas, William. Annals of the First African Church in the United States of America, Now Styled the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas. Philadelphia, 1862. Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. New York, 1855. –––––. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. Unabridged republication Cheswold, DL: Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Press, 2004. –––––. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Revised edition. London: Collier-MacMillan, 1962. 5 Driver, Tom. Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991. Du Bois, W. E. B. The Negro Church. Atlanta: The Atlanta University Press, 1903. –––––. The Philadelphia Negro. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1899. –––––. The Souls of Black Folks. Introduction by Donald B. Gibson. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. Ellis, Catherine, and Stephen Smith, eds. Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches. New York: New Press, 2007. Epstein, Dena. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1977. Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. Edited by Shelly Eversley. Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr. New York: The Modern Library, 2004. Evans, James. We Have Been Believers: An African-American Systematic Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. Falconbridge, Alexander. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. London: J. Phillips, 1788. Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jennifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. New York: Ballantine Books, 2006. Felder, Cain Hope. Stoney the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991. Fisk University Social Science Institute. Unwritten History of Slavery. Nashville: Fisk University Social Science Institute, 1945. Foner, Philip, and Robert Branham, eds. Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787- 1900. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. Three volumes. New York: Vintage, 1986. Foster, Sharon Ewell. Abraham’s Well. Grand Rapids, MI: Bethany House, 2006. –––––. Passing by Samaria. Grand Rapids: Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah, 1999. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. 6 Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans.