A long reconstruction : racial caste and reconciliation in the Methodist Episcopal Church / Paul William Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Paul William, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--Religious aspects--Methodist Episcopal Church.

Race relations.

Racism--Religious aspects--Methodist Episcopal Church.

Racism.

Racism--United States--History.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

United States--Religion.

Methodist Episcopal Church--History.

Methodist Episcopal Church.

African Methodist Episcopal Church--History.

African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? Conventional historical timelines mark the end of Reconstruction in the year 1877, but the Methodist Episcopal Church continued to wrestle with issues of racial inclusion for decades after political support for racial reform had receded. An 1844 schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries and teachers into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M.E. Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 6, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-757183-2

0-19-757185-9

0-19-757184-0

OCLC:

1294146548