African American Religious History

A Documentary Witness

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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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, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents-many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to find-include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, journalistic accounts, and theological statements. In this volume Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan’s farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee becomes a female preacher among the African Methodists. Frederick Douglass discusses Christianity and slavery. Isaac Lane preaches among the freedmen. Nannie Helen Burroughs reports on the work of Baptist women. African Methodist bishops deliberate on the Great Migration. Bishop C. H. Mason tells of the Pentecostal experience. Mahalia Jackson recalls the glory of singing at the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes from the Birmingham jail. Originally published in 1985, this expanded second edition includes new sources on women, African missions, and the Great Migration. Milton C. Sernett provides a general introduction as well as historical context and comment for each document.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-01-17
Mått155 x 233 x 40 mm
Vikt885 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieC. Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience
Antal sidor608
Upplaga2
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822324492

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Preface to the Second Edition ixIntroduction 1I. From Africa Through Early America 1. Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture / Olaudah Equiano 132. African Religions in Colonial Jamaica / Bryan Edwards 203. Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier / Francis Le Jau 254. "Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" / Jupiter Hammon 345. Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists / George Liele and Andrew Bryan 446. A Black Puritan's Farewell / Lemuel Haynes 52II. Slave Religions in the Antebellum South 7. Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible / Peter Randolph 638. "Proud of the 'Ole Time' Religion" / Sister Kelly 699. Conjuration and Witchcraft / Henry Bibb 7610. "Great Moral Dilemma" / James W.C. Pennington 8111. Religion and Slave Insurrection / Nat Turner 8912. Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ / Frederick Douglass 10213. Slave Songs and Spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson 112III. Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle 14. "Life Experience and Gospel Labors" / Richard Allen 13915. Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Christopher Rush 15516. A Female Preacher among the African Methodists / Jarena Lee 16417. African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State / Nathaniel Paul 18518. "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion" / David Walker 19319. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston" / Maria Stewart 20220. "To the Citizens of New York" / Peter Williams 21121. Black Churches in New York City, 1840 / Charles B. Ray 21822. Protesting the "Negro Pew" / Jeremiah Asher 22423. "I Will Not Live a Slave" / Jermain W. Loguen 22824. "Welcome to the Ransomed" / Daniel Alexander Payne 232IV. Freedom's Time of Trial: 1865-World War I 25. From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen / Isaac lane 24526. "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" / Lucius H. Holsey 25227. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South / William Wells Brown 25628. "Education in the A.M.E. Church" / Daniel Alexander Payne 26129. The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist / Amanda Smith 27030. "The Regeneration of Africa" / Alexander Crummell 28231. Emigration to Africa / Henry McNeal Turner 28932. The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889 / African American Catholics 29633. 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention / Elias C. Morris 30134. Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ / Elsie W. Mason 31435. "Of the Faith of the Fathers" / W.E.B. Dubois 32536. "The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906" / Reverdy C. Ransom 33737. "What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District" / Rosa Young 347V. From the Great Migration to World war II 38. Address on the Great Migration / African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops 35939. "Dear Mary" and "My dear Sister" / Letters on the Second Exodus 36440. Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church / S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie Mapp 36841. Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life / Lacy Kirk Williams 37242. Report of the Work of Baptist Women / Nannie H. Burroughs 37643. Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia / Jasper C. Caston 403A Letter from the "Foreign Field" / Lula E. Cooper 41044. "Things of the Spirit" / Carter G. Woodson 41545. "The Genius of the Negro Church" / Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson 42346. "The Churches of Bronzeville" / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton 435VI. Twentieth-Century Religious Alternatives 47. Garvey Tells His Own Story / Marcus Garvey 45348. "Organized Religion and the Cults" / Miles Mark Fischer 46449. Black Judaism in Harlem / Rabbi Matthew 47350. "The Realness of God, to you-wards..." / Father Divine 47851. Elder Lucy Smith / Herbert Morrisohn Smith 48752. "Self-Government in the New World" / Wallace D. Muhammad 499VII. CIvil Rights, Black Theology, and Beyond 53. "National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights" / Joseph H. Jackson 51154. "Letter from Birmingham Jail--April 16, 1963" / Martin Luther King, Jr. 51955. Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom /Mahalia Jackson 53656. "The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope" / Howard Thurman 54857. "Black Power" Statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black Theology" Statement, June 13, 1969 55558. "Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go From Here?" / James H. Cone 56759. "The Black Churches: A New Agenda" / Lawrence N. Jones 580Index 589

From reviews of the first edition: "Anyone interested in America's religious past, and, specifically the black religious experience will be rewarded by reading and urging others to read this fine 'anthology.'" - Robert Michael Franklin, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Sernett deserves the highest marks for this collection."-Stephen J. Stein, Religious Studies Review " . . this book will long stand as a major and valuable tool for the study of Afro-American religious history." - Sandy D. Martin, The Black Scholar