Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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© 2020 Lisa M. Bowens
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Published 2020
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN 978-0-8028-7676-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
Excerpts from the following sources are used by permission:
God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves, ed. Clifton H. Johnson, © 1969 Pilgrim Press.
“God and Time: Exploring Black Notions of Prophetic and Apocalyptic Eschatology,” pages 213–24 in T & T Clark Handbook of African American Theology, ed. Antonia Daymond, Frederick Ware, and Eric Williams, © 2019 Marilyn Dunn, published by T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Cover credits:
Front cover: African American Man. Photo by Thomas Eakins, ca. 1884. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/285842
Front flap: daughter of Mrs. D. Saggus, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Greene County, Georgia. Photo by Jack Delano, 1941. Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/item/2017794954/
Back flap: full-length portrait of an African American woman seated holding an African American infant. Photo by A. D. Jaynes, Corning, NY, between 1860 and 1870. Library of Congress. lccn.loc.gov/2010647820.