Todne Thomas

The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality Share Book Pages: 272 Illustrations: Published: March 2021 Subjects African American Studies and Black Diaspora, Anthropology > Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies In Kincraft Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals, who are often overshadowed by white evangelicals and the common equation of the “black Church” with an Afro-Protestant mainline.

How did Donald Trump get elected as the 45th President of the United States in 2016? The question has been posed and answered by scholars, journalists, and citizens alike. A recurring statistic — that 81 percent of White Evangelicals voted for Trump — has made those “Trumpvangelicals” a focal point of the media and captured the public’s imagination.

Slavery, Family Separation, and the Ransom Case of John Weems During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people. As historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor has demonstrated in Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War, these laws restricted the movement of Black people, making it more difficult for those who were enslaved as well as free.