In the 1700s black Maritimers tended to be part of Anglican and Presbyterian congregations, but in the late eighteenth century the Newlight Movement attracted many black converts. “They held
camp meetings
in which crying, shouting, fainting and ‘
” (Henry 1973:123). However, under white leadership, there was a trend away from fundamentalism in the mid-1800s, which also affected the early all-black churches,...fits,
’ seeing visions and hearing voices were important elements of the service
