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African American religious history : a documentary witness
Title
African American religious history : a documentary witness / edited by Milton C. Sernett.
ISBN
9780822396031
0822396033
0822324261 (alk. paper)
9780822324263 (alk. paper)
0822324490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822324492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
2nd ed.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 595 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Rev. ed. of: Afro-American religious history.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection archive.
Afro-American religious history.
Other formats
Print version: African American religious history. 2nd ed. Durham : Duke University Press, 1999
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Series
The C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 166, 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.
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