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

Revised edition of: Afro-American religious history.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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