Plantation Church
How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery
Noel Leo Erskine
Reviews and Awards
"This book is well researched and covers a great deal of information, bringing into dialogue diverse intellectual traditions and viewpoints about the African experience in the Americas during slavery."--Early American Literature
"Through a helpful synthesis of scholarly literature and primary-source evidence, Erskine offers intriguing ideas as the roots of African-American and Caribbean Christianity are considered."--Anglican and Episcopal History
"This book is one of those rare scholarly corrections that offers profound wisdom for academic and popular audiences. Noel Erskine mounts compelling evidence that the black religious experience began in the Caribbean and not in the United States. How refreshing that he does so with fluid storytelling and a writing style that urges the reader to pursue each page with expectations of new knowledge." --Dwight N. Hopkins, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology
"A brilliantly provocative and unprecedented book, told with both intimately personal prose and comprehensive and convincing data, with insights that will radically change the way we have conceptualized Black Atlantic religious traditions. This is the book that we have been waiting for. It is truly a tour de force, a must read for all!" --Kamari M. Clarke, Professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies, Yale University
"Plantation Church is a significant contribution for theologians and students seeking to understand the development of black Christian communities. Moreover, the book is truly international in its scope, demonstrating the necessity of treating transnationalism as characteristic of religious life in the Afro-Atlantic."-HNET