Unwritten history
By: by L.J. Coppin
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: African Americans; Biography; African American Methodists; African American clergy; Bishops; History; Slavery; Slavery and the church; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Unwritten History is the autobiography of Levi Jenkins Coppin, a preacher, missionary and bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. His story begins with his boyhood in Maryland, just prior to the Civil War, and involves his preaching career, his editorship of the A.M.E. Church Review, his election to the bishopric in 1900, his missionary work in Africa, and his role as bishop in South Carolina and Alabama. He acknowledges the persons most influential in his career, and relates more personal events. His book includes observations on a variety of subjects, such as the Civil War, Emancipation, slavery, the favorable effects of education on his race, and the nature of the people of South Africa, although his primary concern remains the A.M.E. Church.
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: Unwritten history / by Bishop L.J. Coppin. Philadelphia, PA : A.M.E. Book Concern, c1919. 375 p. : ports. ; 20 cm.

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