This book looks at the interaction of slavery, religion, and race in antebellum Missouri and how they influenced and shaped each other. The author argues that f

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in th

No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of hi

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic

Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlem