The history of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Subtitle: comprising its organization, subsequent development and present status
By: by C.H. Phillips
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; Clergy; Biography; African American Methodists; African American clergy; African Americans; Religion; Methodism; Church history; Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: The Colored Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church's history from its founding in 1870 to its current activities and future prospects in 1925. Phillips uses the General Conferences of the C.M.E. Church as an organizing principle for his work, recounting important decisions and personages, and reprinting church documents relevant to Conference proceedings. He punctuates the continuous stream of historical events with interpretations of the significance of these events for the denomination. Pays special attention to conflicts between the C.M.E. Church, the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (A.M.E.Z.) Church. He ends with a series of addresses against the union of the three churches. A comprehensive church history and impassioned argument for the distinctiveness and independence of the C.M.E. Church.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: The history of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America : comprising its organization, subsequent development and present status / by C.H. Phillips. 3rd ed. Jackson, Tenn. : Publishing House C.M.E. Church, H.P. Porter, Agent, 1925. 623 p. : ills., ports. 2 v. in 1. Vol. 2 is 1st edition. "Biography of the author by J.W. Smith, D.D., Editor Star of Zion, Official Paper of the A.M.E. Zion Church"--P. 7-13.

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