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- Collection: The Historical Development of BIPOC Trans-spiritual Leadership
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An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves, 1691
Transcription Source: William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Philadelphia: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 3:86–88.
The Stono Rebellion of 1739, near Stono River, South Carolina
The 1939 rebellion was ignited because white colonists had been working on a Negro Act of 1740 that would put more limits on Black enslaved people. It would be illegal for Black people to assemble on their own, grow their own food, learn to read, or…
Life Story: Jarena Lee (1783–1855)
Preacher of the Second Great Awakening
Jarena became part of a broad spiritual movement called the Second Great Awakening that lasted from the 1790s to the 1840s. A religious fervor crossed the land and reached its peak in the 1820s, when Jarena began her missionary work.
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Pacification with the Maroon Negroes
Missionizing paved a path to the pacification of the colonized in which they were made promises with treaties never kept. At the same time, their land and sustenance was confiscated and their spiritual authority and defensive powers, neutralized. In…
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
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Richards, Mary Stovall. Brigham Young University Studies 47, no. 2 (2008): 166–69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43044643.
Richards, Mary Stovall. Brigham Young University Studies 47, no. 2 (2008): 166–69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43044643.