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African American Christianity, Pt. I: To the Civil War
by Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Sensbach, Jon F. A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

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_____________. The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987.

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Wilmore, Gayraud S. Black Religion and Black Radicalism. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1992.


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