Freedom's prophet
Subtitle: Bishop Richard Allen, the AMR Church, and the Black founding fathers
By: Richard S. Newman.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780814758267
Subjects: Allen, Richard, -- 1760-1831; African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Bishops -- Biography; African Methodist Episcopal Church -- History; Bishops -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A Black founder's many worlds; title: For zion's sake : I will not rest; title: Gospel labors; title: The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people; title: The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal; title: We participate in common : Allen's role as a Black mediator; title: A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church; title: Stay or go : Allen and African colonization; title: Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s; title: A Black founders' expanding visions; title: Last rights; title: Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.