... This chapter focuses on two sets of letters from two black settlers to a white acquaintance and a former master in the United States: Samson Ceasar’s letters to Henry F. Westfall and Nancy Ann Smith’s letters to John McDonogh. By dwelling at some length with the speculative intricacies of these...

... itself; and a future sought skeptically and critically. This chapter focuses on two sets of letters from two black settlers to a white acquaintance and a former master in the United States: Samson Ceasar’s letters to Henry F. Westfall and Nancy Ann Smith’s letters to John McDonogh. By dwelling at...

...–54 movement, 68; and controversy, 124 Prentiss, Henry, 68 Ongman, John, 80 Presbyterian (epc and pca), 4 Open Brethren, 84 Presbyterians (pcusa), 5 Oppong, Samson, 73 Probation, 246–49 Original Sin, 165, 166, 169, 177, 178, 189...

..., looked older and more ragged than his years, but he thumped out his lines with titanic force. Samson Mukanga, the lanky, rail- thin drummer, was the fi rst to spot me and fl ash a smile. Th en Th omas tossed his four- foot dreadlocks aside, caught my eye, and waved coyly. Leaning a bit...

... with its emphases on the su- pernatural, healing, exorcisms, and experiential spirituality.19 Although most Pentecostals rejected any kind of theological syncretism on core doctrines, native healing prophets and evangelists like William Wade Harris, John Swatson, Samson Oppong, Simon Kimbangu...

..., 269– 70 304n12, 305nn17– 18, 308n27, 318n13; death Mugabe, Albert: death of, 206– 7, 323n7, of, 66 323– 34n10 Mukanga, Samson (drummer), 3, 198, 220, Mugabe, Grace Marufu (Mugabe’s second 249, 252, 327n19; death of, 252– 53 wife), 207, 217, 279, 324n3...

... evangelists like William Wade Harris, John Swatson, Samson Oppong, Simon Kimbangu, and Garrick Braide blended Pentecostal and indigenous cultural practices, although reinscribing their theological meaning with various strands of biblical and largely (in some cases) Protestant evangelical beliefs...