History of the A.M.E. Zion Church in America
Subtitle: founded in 1796, in the city of New York
By: compiled and published by John Jamison Moore
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; African American Methodists; Biography; Methodism; African Americans; Religion; Church history; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Other titles: History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Traces the history of the A.M.E.Z. Church from its beginnings in 1796 to its full separation from the white Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in 1821, and up to its current activities in 1884. Differences between the A.M.E.Z. Church and the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church and the debate over unifying the two denominations are highlighted. Includes documents relevant to every stage of the Church's development--from the original articles of incorporation, to the minutes of contemporary Church conferences also a chapter of biographical sketches of A.M.E.Z. bishops and an appendix of denominational statistics.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: History of the A.M.E. Zion Church in America : founded in 1796, in the city of New York / compiled and published by John Jamison Moore, D.D., Bishop of A.M.E.Z. Church. York PA. : Teachers' Journal Office, 1884. 392 p. : ill. ports.

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