This Spot of Ground - Duncan, Carol B
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Chapter 1 "A PASSPORT TO HEAVEN'S GATE" Carol B. Duncan The first chapter focuses on the significance of journeying in Spiritual Baptist experience. In this way, Spiritual Baptist migration to Canada is characterized within the much longer history of the Middle Passage, slavery, and enforced African migration to the Americas and subsequent movement between territories including the Caribbean, North and South America, Western Europe, and Africa. Of particular concern here is the continued salience of the "North" as a haven for black people-a motif that has its roots in the African-American and…mehr

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Chapter 1 "A PASSPORT TO HEAVEN'S GATE" Carol B. Duncan The first chapter focuses on the significance of journeying in Spiritual Baptist experience. In this way, Spiritual Baptist migration to Canada is characterized within the much longer history of the Middle Passage, slavery, and enforced African migration to the Americas and subsequent movement between territories including the Caribbean, North and South America, Western Europe, and Africa. Of particular concern here is the continued salience of the "North" as a haven for black people-a motif that has its roots in the African-American and African-Canadian experience of moving "North" to freedom via the Underground Railroad in the U.S. antebellum years of the nineteenth century.
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Carol B. Duncan is Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her areas of research interest include Caribbean religion and culture in diasporic and transnational contexts. She has published on the Spiritual Baptists, the Black Church, black women and motherhood, and race, gender, and representation in film. Duncan is a co-author of the textbook Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon Press, 2007). In 2006-2007 she was a research associate in the Womens Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School and a visiting associate professor of Women's Studies and Religion and Society.