Africa and African Methodism
By: Ridgel, Alfred Lee
Contributors: Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915; 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: Methodist Church; History; African Americans; Biography; African American missionaries; Clergy; Black people; Religion; Missions; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Africa and African Methodism is Ridgel's favorable account of his 1893 missionary trip to Sierra Leone in Western Africa. He describes the people and the country, urges African-Americans to take pride in their roots and encourages black Americans to emigrate to Africa. He proposes the theory that the founders of the Egyptian civilization were African and sees Africa as a rich opportunity for the growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its missions. The book concludes with a short history of Methodism in Africa and biographical sketches.
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Transcribed from: Africa and African Methodism / by Rev. Alfred Lee Ridgel, A.B., presiding elder of the Liberia Annual Conference African Methodist Episcopal Church, West Coast of Africa ; with an introduction by Bishop H.M. Turner, D.D., LL. D., D.C.L., presiding Bishop of Africa. Atlanta, Ga. : Franklin printing and publishing co., 1896. 116 p.

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