Sketch of the early history of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Subtitle: with jubilee souvenir and an appendix
By: by J.W. Hood
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: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; African American Methodists; African Americans; Religion; Church history; Anniversaries; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Livingstone College
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Documents the origin and progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church during its first few years of existence. Sources include conference minutes from 1778-1799, Christopher Rush's A Short Account of the Rise and Progress of the African M.E. Church in America, and John J. Moore's History of the A.M.E. Zion Church in America, often copied directly. Puts the Church's history in the context of the history of black race going back to biblical times. This volume includes a "Jubilee Souvenir" recounting the "The Hood Golden Jubilee" held in the author's honor in order to provide him with money for Livingstone College and missions. Also appended is Bishop Hood's "Quadrennial Report" for his district in the year 1912.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: Sketch of the early history of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church : with Jubilee Souvenir and an appendix / by J.W. Hood, D.D., LL. D., Senior Bishop, A.M.E. Zion Church. [Charlotte, NC : A.M.E. Zion Publishing House?], c1914. 92, 35 p. : port. Errata included. Page 11: "Hood's history. Vol. II."

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Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Historical sketch of the A.M.E. Zion Church; title: Pt. 2. The Negro race; title: Pt. 3. God's purpose in the Negro church, as seen in the history of the movement; title: Pt. 4. The Hood golden jubilee; title: A supplemental statement; title: Appendix: Quadrennial report of the First Episcopal district to the A.M.E.Z. General Conference, Charlotte, N.C., May 1912.