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  • Machine generated contents note: I African Voluntary Associations and the Rise of Black
  • Spiritual Culture
  • 1 A Taunt from the Oppressed: The West African
  • Institutional Legacy in New York City, 1644-1783
  • 2 Raising Mother Zion: The Fusion of African and
  • British Institutions in New York, 1784-1822
  • 3 The Liberating Power of the Cross: The NYAS and
  • the African Encounter with the Protestant Ethic,
  • 1774-1796
  • 4 "The Aristocracy of Character": African Societies and
  • the Moral Consequence of Nationalism, 1784-1845
  • II African Voluntary Associations and the Making of the
  • Public Sphere
  • 5 "The Inmates of My Sanctum Sanctorum": African
  • Voluntary Associations and the Public Sphere,
  • 1808-1845
  • 6 In the Company of Black Men: Manhood and
  • Obligation in the African Confraternity,
  • 1808-1857
  • 7 "A Single Voice": African Societies, the Press, and
  • the Public Sphere, 1827-1861
  • 8 When Black Men Spoke of Freedom: Voluntary
  • Associations and Nationalist Culture, 1809-1865
  • 111 The Transformation of African American Voluntarism
  • 9 "The Gaudy Carnival": The African Declension in the
  • NYASMR, 1863-1945
  • 10 "Shall It Be a Woman?": The Transformation of Black
  • Men's Voluntarism, 1865-1960
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author
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