Sylvia R Frey

Biographic Data

ID1093089
NAMESylvia R Frey
GIVEN NAMESSylvia R
FAMILY NAMEFrey
SIGNATUREFREY S R
AFFILIATIONSTulane University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

    Sylvia R FreyBOOKWater from the Rock2025

    A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence The American Revolution brought about violent and unpredictable social changes throughout the new nation, particularly in the South. Sylvia Frey reveals how slave resistance gave rise to a Black liberation movement that was central to the revolutionary struggle in the southern colonies, and how Black resistance persisted after the war as a struggle for cultural power that m…

  • Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

    Sylvia R FreyBOOKWater from the Rock2020

  • Between Slavery and Freedom: Virginia Blacks in the American Revolution

    Sylvia R FreyCHAPTERColonial America and the Early…2017

    The American Revolution was a social and economic upheaval of cataclysmic proportions. Its disruptive and destructive effects were more profoundly felt in the South than anywhere else in the country. Long before the British tendered their help, blacks began defecting to them in the mistaken belief that the British view of slavery was substantially different from that of most Virginia planters. In their erratic progress back and forth through the …

  • Remembered Pasts

    Sylvia R FreyCHAPTERThe Routledge history of slavery2015

  • From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

    Sylvia R Frey, Betty WoodBOOKFrom Slavery to Emancipation in…2013Cited by: 1

    This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. The contributors discuss what slavery has to teach us about patterns of adjustment and change, black identity and the extent to which enslaved peoples succeeded in creating a dynamic world of interaction between the Americas. They examine how emancipation was defined, how it a…

  • Remembered Pasts

    Sylvia R FreyCHAPTERThe Routledge history of slavery2010

    The history of African Atlantic religions is an epic story of continuous creation. It cannot be simply told because it is multilayered and moves through multiple transformations. In order to understand the bewildering complexity of African Atlantic religions, it is best to consider them in successive stages. Stage one begins in Africa, whose rich and multiple religious traditions animate African Atlantic religions to this day. The second stage be…

  • Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery

    Sylvia R FreyREVIEWThe American Historical Review2008

    Journal Article Jason R. Young. Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religionin Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UniversityPress. 2007. Pp. xii, 258. Get access Jason R. Young. Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religionin Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UniversityPress. 2007. Pp. xii, 258. Sylvia R. Frey Sylvia R. Frey Tulane University S…

  • The Visible Church: Historiography of African American Religion since Raboteau

    Sylvia R FreyARTICLESlavery and Abolition2008Cited by: 6References: 9

    The Visible Church” is a broad survey of the field of African American religion in the Atlantic world that has emerged in the quarter century since Albert Raboteau's seminal text, Slave Religion, first appeared. It focuses on a relatively small number of works that have fundamentally changed or conceptually displaced the three major categories of analysis—survivals, creolisation and revisionism—that have dominated the historiographical landscape …

  • The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux: A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

    Sylvia R Frey, Ina Johanna FandrichARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

    John C Rodrigue, Sylvia R Frey et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

  • From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

    Michael Mullin, Sylvia R Frey et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World. Ed. by Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood. (Portland: Cass, 1999. vi, 178 pp. Cloth, $52.50, ISBN 0-7146-4964-3. Paper, $24.50, ISBN 0-7146-8025-7.) Get access Michael Mullin Michael Mullin Emeritus California State University, Sacramento, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pa…

  • From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

    Ray A Kea, Sylvia R Frey et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2000

  • Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

    Catherine A Brekus, Sylvia R Frey et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999

    The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of tr…

  • Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

    James Campbell, James D Campbell et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. By Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 285 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2375-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4681-3.) Get access James Campbell James Campbell Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…

  • From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community

    Sylvia R Frey, Lorena S WalshARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community. By Lorena S. Walsh. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xxiv, 335 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8139-1719-0.) Get access Sylvia R. Frey Sylvia R. Frey Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1572, https://doi.or…

  • Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

    Paul E Johnson, Sylvia R Frey et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions: A Review Essay

    Douglas R Egerton, Michael Mullin et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1998

  • Rethinking the American Revolution

    Sylvia R FreyARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996

    EN DWARD Countryman's Indians, the Colonial Order, and the Social Significance of the American is an ambitious, bold, important, and confusing work. It is ambitious in its effort to develop a new intellectual framework for examining the social significance of the American Revolution; bold in its bid to unite two schools of interpretation of the Revolution-one that views the Revolution as a national liberation movement, the other that counts as th…

  • Recontextualizing Black Resistance: A Review Essay

    Gloria Graves Holmes, Merton L Dillon et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1994

  • Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century

    Sylvia R FreyREVIEWThe American Historical Review1993

  • Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800

    Sylvia R Frey, Leland FergusonREVIEWThe American Historical Review1993

  • Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South: The American History Series

    Sylvia R Frey, Sally G McMillenARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age.

    Robert Mccolley, Sylvia R FreyARTICLEThe American Historical Review1992

  • Violence and Religion in the Black American Revolution

    Graham Russell Hodges, Sylvia R FreyARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age

    Sheila L Skemp, Sylvia R FreyARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. By Sylvia R. Frey. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xii + 376 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04784-7.) Get access Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. By Frey Sylvia R.. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xii + 376 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04784-7.) Sheila L. Skemp Sheila L. Skemp University of Mississippi Search for other works by…