Come Shouting to Zion

“The best and most fully informed survey of the rise of black religion in the American south and the West Indies.” — Journal of the American Academy of Religion

“The richness of the source material on which Frey and Wood draw makes this a particularly enjoyable book to read.” — Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“Imaginatively conceived and exhaustively researched, Come Shouting to Zion is an important new contribution to African American religious history.” — Journal of American History

“A remarkable achievement. Through their clearly written, yet marvelously nuanced argument, Frey and Wood convey the dialectical process by which slave societies gave birth to a new religion.” — Georgia Historical Quarterly

“In this engrossing, well-researched book, [the authors] offer a sweeping overview of African American religion in the South and the Caribbean in the years before 1830. . . . Future scholars . . . will appreciate their clarity, their breadth of vision, and their passionate commitment to presenting the enslaved as historical actors in their own right.” — Journal of Southern History

“A well-researched and valuable book. . . . [that] should help to change the scholarly conversation about early African-American religion.” — William & Mary Quarterly

“[Tells of] the mass conversion of African-Americans to Protestantism in the eighteenth century. . . . with admirable clarity and humanity.” — -Times Literary Supplement

“A useful synthesis of both recent and older work on the interactions between people of African descent and Christianity.” — Religious Studies Review

“Provides a lively, masterful account of this decisive American experience.” — Maryland Historical Magazine

“Contributes to our understanding of how human survival relies upon the resilient and malleable nature of culture and how oppressed people confront the complex juxtaposition of racial submission and racial equality in the conversion process.” — North Carolina Historical Review