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African American religious history : a documentary witness
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This widely heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, ci...
This widely heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today.
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- edited by Milton C. Sernett
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- Afro-American religious history
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- English
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- 2nd ed
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1999
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- x, 595 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0822324261, 9780822324263, 0822324490, 9780822324492
- OCLC
- ocm41497024
- Revised edition of: Afro-American religious history.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- I. From Africa through early America. Traditional Ibo religion and culture / Olaudah Equuiano ; African religions in colonial Jamaica / Bryan Edwards ; Slave conversion on the Carolina frontier / Francis Le Jau ; Address to the negroes in the state of New York / Jupiter Hammon ; Letters from pioneer Black Baptists / George Liele and Andrew Bryan ; A Black Puritan's farewell / Lemuel Haynes -- II. Slave religion in the Antebellum South. Plantation churches : visible and invisible / Peter Randolph ; Proud of that 'ole time' religion / Sister Kelly ; Conjuration and witchcraft / Henry Bibb ; Great moral dilemma / James W.C. Pennington ; Religion and slave insurrection / Nat Turner ; Slaveholding religion and the Christianity of Christ / Frederick Douglass ; Slave songs and spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- III. Black churches north of slavery and the freedom struggle. Life experience and gospel labors / Richard Allen ; Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Christopher Rush ; A female preacher among the African Methodists / Jarena Lee ; African Baptists celebrate emancipation in New York state / Nathaniel Paul ; Our wretchedness in consequence of the preachers of religion / David Walker ; Mrs. Stewart's farewell address to her friends in the city of Boston / Maria Stewart ; To the citizens of New York / Peter Williams ; Black churches in New York City, 1840 / Charles B. Ray ; Protesting the "negro pew" / Jeremiah Asher ; I will not live a slave / Jermain W. Loguen ; Welcome to the ransomed / Daniel Alexander Payne -- IV. Freedom's time of trial : 1865-World War I. From slave to preacher among the freedmen / Isaac Lane ; The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church / Lucius H. Holsey ; Black religion in the post-Reconstruction South / William Wells Brown ; Education in the A.M.E. Church / Daniel Alexander Payne ; The travail of a female colored evangelist / Amanda Smith ; The regeneration of Africa / Alexander Crummell ; Emigration to Africa / Henry McNeal Turner ; The first African American Catholic Congress, 1889 / African American Catholics ; 1899 presidential address to the National Baptist Convention / Elias C. Morris ; Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ / Elsie W. Mason ; Of the faith of the fathers / W.E.B. Dubois ; The race problem in a Christian state, 1906 / Reverdy C. Ransom ; What induced me to build a school in the rural district / Rosa Young -- V. The great migration to World War II. Address on the great migration / African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops ; Dear Mary and My dear sister / Letters on the second exodus ; Social work at Olivet Baptist Church / S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie Mapp ; Effects of urbanization on religious life / Lacy Kirk Williams ; Report of the work of Baptist women / Nannie H. Burroughs ; Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia / Jasper C. Caston ; A letter from the "foreign field" / Lula E. Cooper ; Things of the Spirit / Carter G. Woodson ; The genius of the negro church / Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson ; The churches of Bronzeville / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton -- VI. Twentieth-century religious alternatives. Garvey tells his own story / Marcus Garvey ; Organized religion and the cults / Miles Mark Fischer ; Black Judaism in Harlem / Rabbi Matthew ; The realness of God, to you-wards / Father Divine ; Elder Lucy Smith / Herbert Morrisohn Smith ; Self-government in the new world / Wallace D. Muhammad -- VII. Civil rights, black theology, and beyond. National Baptist philosophy of civil rights / Joseph H. Jackson ; Letter from Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963 / Martin Luther King Jr. ; Singing of good tidings and freedom / Mahalia Jackson ; The anatomy of segregation and ground of hope / Howard Thurman ; "Black power" statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black theology" statement, June 13, 1969 / National Conference on Black Churchmen ; Black theology and the Black church : where do we go from here? / James H. Cone ; The Black churches : a new agenda / Lawrence N. Jones