African American religious history : a documentary witness / edited by Milton C. Sernett. [print]

Revised edition of: Afro-American religious history.

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.

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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