The times were strange and stirring : Methodist preachers and the crisis of emancipation / Reginald F. Hildebrand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hildebrand, Reginald Francis.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist Church--Southern States--History--19th century.

Methodist Church.

African American Methodists--Southern States--History--19th century.

African American Methodists.

Southern States--Church history--19th century.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the conclusion of the Civil War, the beginnings of Reconstruction, and the realities of emancipation, former slaves were confronted with the possibility of freedom and, with it, a new way of life. In The Times Were Strange and Stirring, Reginald F. Hildebrand examines the role of the Methodist Church in the process of emancipation-and in shaping a new world at a unique moment in American, African American, and Methodist history.Hildebrand explores the ideas and ideals of missionaries from several branches of Methodism-the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Colored Met

Contents:

Part 1: Southern Methodism and colored Methodism

Part 2: African Methodism and the freedpeople

Part 3: Northern Methodism and southern blacks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-183) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062451

9781283062459

1283062453

9780822381938

0822381931

OCLC:

220951391