Resumen de The problem: Religion within the world of slaves
A spirit bundle from Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland, is described and interpreted as a function of the Afro-Christianity created during and after the Atlantic slave trade. The bundle is made up mostly of worn shoes and boots; it dates to after Emancipation and was discovered in the 1990s. This interpretation attempts to use the Slave Narratives of the 1930s to understand the meaning of the bundle. The imminence of the supernatural in the bundle and the simultaneous structure of the nearby Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches is tied to the early Christian debates of the third and fourth centuries of the immediacy and individuality of access to God in contrast to the hierarchical structure of the church.
