A Place to Worship: African American Camp Meetings in the Carolinas Contributor(s): Floyd, Minuette (Author), Hunter, Terry K. (Foreword by), Stanley, Tom (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1611178886 ISBN-13: 9781611178883 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Methodist - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Religion | Christian Living - Spiritual Growth |
Dewey: 269.240 |
LCCN: 2018004710 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 9" W x 9.9" L (1.05 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: Camp meetings--also called revivals--originated with circuit-riding Methodist preachers who gathered congregations in open fields and town squares. However, the sermons had messages that were not always welcomed by mainstream Protestant churches in the colonial and antebellum South. With the help of white itinerant preachers, enslaved African Americans organized their own camp meetings in conjunction with the white revivals. These celebratory events were predominantly spiritual, with preaching, worship, and communion, but also offered a chance for family reunions. After the Civil War, independent African American congregations built on this antebellum heritage by establishing permanent camps that continue to welcome meetings today. In A Place to Worship, Minuette Floyd shares an intimate portrait of the culture, traditions, and long history of the camp meeting as one of the most vital institutions in the lives of rural African Americans in North and South Carolina. As a child Floyd attended camp meetings each year in North Carolina, and she renewed her interest in them as an adult. For the past eighteen years Floyd has travelled to campgrounds throughout the Carolinas, documenting the annual tradition through photographs and interviews. Floyd has sought to record not only a visual record of the places and practices of each, but also the rich and inspiring stories of the people who make them thrive. |
Contributor Bio(s): Floyd, Minuette: - Minuette Floyd is a professor of art education and director of the Young Artist's Workshop at the University of South Carolina School of Visual Art and Design.Hunter, Terry K.: - Terry K. Hunter is the executive director of the Fine Arts Cultural Enrichment Teaching Studios.Stanley, Tom: - Tom Stanley is the Department of Fine Arts chair emeritus at Winthrop University. |
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