Trabelin' On

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Summary: Tremendously insightful chronical of the the slave journey
Review: Mechal Sobel provides a detailed and deep history of the journey of African and African American slaves from the traditional West and Central African theology to the Black Baptist Theology in America. Her use of the concept of "sacred cosmos" to tie together the body of beliefs and practices which freight a people's awareness of God and man's response to God is excellent. She presents a picture of the early days of slavery and the failure of the organized religion of that day to meet the needs of bondservants. She then documents the transformation of this sacred cosmos in response to the evangelical outreach of the Baptists and the fulfillment of slaves' humanity in Jesus. This book is good history of a unique American trabel. I was, however, distressed to see that it is out of print. I was going to use it in my Black Theology class at Christian Bible College of Louisiana.