A history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Subtitle: being a volume supplemental to A history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, by Daniel Alexander Payne, D.D., LL. D., Late one of its Bishops : chronicling the principal events in the advance of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1856 to 1922
By: by Charles Spencer Smith
Contributors: Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893; 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: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Clergy; Biography; African American Methodists; African Americans; Religion; Methodism; Church history; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 1856-1922.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Dividing the history of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church into six periods of expansion (1820-1898) and four periods of development (1844-1922), the author begins with what he calls "the agitation" in Philadelphia, from 1787 to 1816. Covers many obstacles the Church faced after emancipation, such as the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. Other topics include overseas fundraising in England and the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment (guaranteeing full citizenship and equal protection of the law to African Americans). It also contains an interesting discussion of Bishop Turner's decision to ordain a woman to the order of deacon, and the subsequent repudiation of the act and explores Bishop Turner's work in Africa. It also looks at World War I and its effects on the Church and post-war problems. It includes details of general and annual conferences and lists of Episcopal districts and assignments.
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: A history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church : being a volume supplemental to A history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, by Daniel Alexander Payne, D.D., LL. D., Late one of its Bishops : chronicling the principal events in the advance of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1856 to 1922 / by Charles Spencer Smith, D.D. Philadelphia, Pa. : Book Concern of the A.M.E. Church, 1922. 570 p. ; 24 cm. On spine of the original: A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 1856-1922. Vol. II. Includes index. "The last tribute to Bishop Charles Spencer Smith" by John R. Hawkins -- P. 571.

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