Research Project Aaron Pride Sankofa: Radical Millenarianism and Post-apocalypticism in African American Religious Historiography in the Atlantic World

This project argues that African American Christianity produced a militant millennial movement in the early twentieth and also asserts that we can identify a black militant millennial tradition that spans across two centuries from the slave insurrections of Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, and Nat Turner to William Monroe Trotter's civil rights activism in the early twentieth century. In making the case for the importance and existence of a black militant millennial tradition, this work also asserts that this millennial tradition included a substantive vision of the post-apocalyptic world that for black militant millennialists of the nineteenth century comprised a world devoid of racial slavery, while militant millennialist of the twentieth envisioned a post-apocalyptic world that repudiated racial segregation and discrimination.