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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sernett, Milton C., 1942- editor.

Series:

C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience.

The C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience African American religious history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 595 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Revised edition of: Afro-American religious history.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed December 12, 2020).

ISBN:

9780822396031

0822396033

OCLC:

607449325