The history of the Negro church
By: Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950
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; Religion; Slaves; Religious life; History; Missionaries; African American churches; African American clergy; Slavery and the church; Church history
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Traces the influence of the black church in America from colonial times through the early twentieth century. Describes the origins of religious instruction for a race characterized as "neglected," traces the numerous sectarian movements and details the establishment of the most prominent black denominations. He writes of how, following the Civil War, the church took on many other functions in the black community: religious center, Chamber of Commerce, educational facility and social center. Because the black ministry was one of the highest stations available to a black leader, Woodson includes short biographies of significant church members.
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Transcribed from: The history of the Negro church / by Carter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro history, author of A century of Negro migration, and of the Education of the Negro prior to 1861. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : The Associated Publishers, c1921. x, 330 p. : ill., ports ; 21 cm. Includes index.

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Table of contents: title: Early missionaries and the Negro; title: The dawn of the new day; title: Pioneer Negro preachers; title: The independent church movement; title: Early development; title: The schism and the subsequent situation; title: Religious instruction revived; title: Preachers of versatile genius; title: The Civil War and the church; title: Religious education as a preparation; title: The call of politics; title: The conservative and progressive; title: The Negro church socialized; title: The recent growth of the Negro church; title: The Negro of to-day.