Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a
complex reciprocal movement involving black and white
Christians. It highlights the role of African American preachers in
the conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African
American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual
patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black
spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in
which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western
culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped
transform Africans into African Americans.