Africa and the American Negro
Subtitle: addresses and proceedings of the Congress on Africa held under the auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895
By: edited by J.W.E. Bowen
Contributors: Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa; Bowen, J. W. E. (John Wesley Edward), 1855-1933; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library; Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.)
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: Missions; Methodist Church; Congresses; Black people; African Americans; African American Methodists; Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Discusses the political and cultural condition of Africa and the responsibility of African-Americans to perform missionary work in Africa. Covers the colonial partition of Africa and promotes the generally held view of the Congress's speakers that colonization provided an opportunity to promote Christianity and its civilizing influence in Africa.
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: Africa and the American Negro : addresses and proceedings of the Congress on Africa held under the auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895 / edited by Prof. J.W.E. Bowen, Ph. D., D.D., Secretary of the Congress. Atlanta : Gamon Theological Seminary, 1896. 243 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

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