The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleA striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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... United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Callahan, Allen Dwight. The talking book : African Americans and the Bible / Allen Dwight Callahan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn ...
... United States before and after the Civil War. In Douglass we find both incarnation and synthesis of the forces that inform the African-American encounter with the Bible — the critical adoption of Evangelical religion, the relentless ...
... United States bore a whip in one hand and a Bible in the other. It was this Bible that Garnet and his colleagues were now proposing to send to the South. Other contemporary ex-slaves corroborated Douglass's testimony. The fugitive slave ...
... United Nations building: “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” The words are the prophet Isaiah's ...
... United States. Jupiter Hammond, eighteenth-century slave poet and essayist, was the first African American to have his writings published in the United States. At age forty-nine on Christmas Day, 1760, he wrote “An Evening Thought ...
Contents
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |