Embracing Protestantism: Black Identities in the Atlantic WorldThe first study to consider, on a circum Atlantic scale, how conversion to Afro Protestant Christianity encouraged a middle path between exclusionist ethnic African identities and deracinated Atlantic creole identities.Douglas B. Chambers, author of The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade In Embracing Protestantism, John Catron argues that people of African descent in America who adopted Protestant Christianity during the eighteenth century