African Methodism in the South, or, Twenty-five years of freedom
By: by Wesley J. Gaines ; with an introduction by W.S. Scarborough
Contributors: Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926; 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: History; African American Methodists; African Americans; Religion; Methodism; Church history; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: African Methodism in the South; Twenty-five years of freedom; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Deals mainly with the history of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Georgia. Concerned with the church in the twenty-five years following Emancipation it gives a synopsis of the birth of the A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia in 1787 and traces its spread through the South. Church reports, details of Conferences and meetings, discussions on ordination, financial information, church statistics, details of Sunday Schools, and discussions on the future of A.M.E. children present a rounded view of the Church's growth and development. Gaines emphasizes the importance of missionary work in Africa as well as the education of its young people as part of the church's future and destiny.
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Transcribed from: African Methodism in the South, or, Twenty-five years of freedom / by Rt. Rev. Wesley J. Gaines, D.D., sixteenth Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church ; with an introduction by Prof. W.S. Scarborough, A.M., LL. D. Atlanta, GA. : Franklin Publishing House, 1890. xxii, 305 p. : port. ; 19 cm.

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