Uplifting the people
Subtitle: three centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
By: Wilson Fallin, Jr.
Series: Religion and American culture; Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780817315696
Subjects: Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention -- History.; African American Baptists -- Alabama -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Slaves, Afro-Baptist faith, and Black preachers; value: God's gift of freedom; value: Church life, expansion, and denominational concerns; value: Education, Black nationalism, and sociopolitical concerns; value: Theology and leadership; value: Protest, growth, and revivalism; value: Urbanization and economic self-help; value: Between the wars; value: Rising militancy; value: Protest and reorganization; value: Continuity, preservation, and challenge.