Beams of light on early Methodism in America
Subtitle: chiefly drawn from the diary, letters, manuscripts, documents, and original tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper
By: compiled by Geo. A. Phoebus
Contributors: Phoebus, Geo. A. (George A.); 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: Diaries; Correspondence; Clergy; Biography; History; African American Methodists; Methodism; Church history; Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Light on early Methodism.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: An account of the Methodist Church in antebellum America, most of the material comes from the personal records of Ezekiel Cooper, an itinerant preacher active in the latter part of the 18th century. It uses the personal experiences of Cooper, as recorded in his letters and personal diaries, to describe the status and activities of the Methodist Church in New Jersey, Baltimore, Annapolis, Alexandria (Virginia), Charleston (South Carolina), Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Wilmington, Delaware. Events described include various denominational conferences and public reactions to church activities such as revivals. Also includes a chapter on the printing of Methodist books and an addendum on the Methodist Church's opposition to slavery.
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: Beams of light on early Methodism in America : chiefly drawn from the diary, letters, manuscripts, documents, and original tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper / compiled by Geo. A. Phoebus. New York : Phillips & Hunt ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1887. xiv, 337 p. Title on spine: Light on early Methodism.

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