Christopher Freeburg: "Soul"

How did enslaved Africans turn America’s infamous failure into the greatest moral occasion of modern Western life? In this book, Christopher Freeburg answers that question with one word: soul. It was soul, Freeburg believes, which drove Black individuals and communities, grappling with horrific strife, to reimagine American life and equality in earnest. Black cultural life contains a central and significant theme—a soul, or form of life—expressed in a variety of musical, religious, and political