| Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835 Subjects: African American evangelists.; Civil rights; African Americans; Religion and politics; Religion and politics; Christianity and literature; Christianity and literature; American literature; This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Cedrick May looks at the work of a group of pivotal African American writers who helped set the stage for the popularization of African American evangelical texts and the introduction of black intellectualism into American political culture: Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley, John Marrant, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and Maria Stewart. CEDRICK MAY is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. |