"Preachers and peddlers of God": Ex-slaves and the selling of African-American religion in the American south

Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 169-190

  Giggie, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315023601     Document Type: Chapter

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