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Freedom's prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / Richard S. Newman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Richard S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831.
- Allen, Richard.
- African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops--Biography.
- African Methodist Episcopal Church.
- African Methodist Episcopal Church--History.
- Bishops--United States--Biography.
- Bishops.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An Interview with the Author on the History News Network. A Founding Father with a Vision of Equality : Richard Newman's op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Author Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ""Gold"" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category. Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic. A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Allen inaugurated some of the most important institutions in African
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-340) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780814759011
- 0814759017
- 9780814758526
- 0814758525
- OCLC:
- 779828178
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