Freedom's Prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newman, Richard S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Allen, Richard, > 1760-1831.
African Methodist Episcopal Church > History.
African Methodist Episcopal Church > Bishops > Biography.
Bishops > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Black founder's many worlds
  • "For zion's sake ... I will not rest"
  • Gospel labors
  • The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people
  • The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal
  • "We participate in common" : Allen's role as a Black mediator
  • A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church
  • Stay or go : Allen and African colonization
  • Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s
  • A Black founders' expanding visions
  • Last rights
  • Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.

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