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Black prophets of justice : activist clergy before the Civil War
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- Creator
- David E. Swift
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1989]
- ©1989
- Physical Details
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- xv, 384 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807114618, 9780807114612, 0807124990, 9780807124994
- OCLC
- ocm18740227
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-376) and index.
- The cast of characters -- The lay of the land -- Presbyterian pastor and pioneer journalist : Samuel Cornish in the 1820s -- Education, abolition, and Black-White interaction : Theodore Wright and Samuel Cornish, 1830 to 1836 -- Black enterprise, White prejudice, and the birth of a political movement : Charles Ray, Samuel Cornish, and Theodore Wright, 1836 to 1840 -- Henry Highland Garnet, Charles Ray, and Black action programs in New York state in the 1840s -- Human betterment through church and the Bible : Garnet's and Ray's ministries in the 1840s -- Amos G. Beman, New Haven pastor and Connecticut activist -- James W.C. Pennington : from slave to teacher, preacher, and protester -- Struggles, defeats, and fresh tasks in the early 1850s -- Defeats, fresh tasks, and visions of a new day in the late 1850s -- The closing years -- Conclusion