Book Discussion: By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

By Dr. Erskine Clarke

Join us as author and historian Erskine Clarke discusses his new book, described as a “seamless” blending of the history of religion, slavery, African colonization, and the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry.  Erskine Clarke is Professor Emeritus of American Religious History at Columbia Theological Seminary and author of Dwelling Place (winner of Columbia University’s prestigious Bancroft Prize), Wrestlin’ Jacob¸ and Our Southern Zion.