A Will to Choose
Subtitle: The Origins of African American Methodism
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780742552647
Subjects: Black studies; Methodist Churches; Religion; Religion - Church History; USA; Christianity - Methodist; Religion / Methodism; African American Methodists; History; Methodist Church (U.S.); United Methodist Church (U.S.)
Description: A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in the secular culture. --From publisher description.