Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal history
By: James A. Handy
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: History; African American Methodists; Biography; Clergy; African American clergy; African Americans; Religion; Methodism; Church history; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Describes the organization and formation of the church, the rise of Methodism, and the establishment of the A.M.E. Church in the Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York areas. Provides a history of the Church's annual conferences, loaded with names and administrative details that provide insight into the interesting historical preoccupations that dominated some of the conferences. Also a focus on the people responsible for the rise of the church, which includes several short biographies of prominent A.M.E. leaders. Also includes information on subjects ranging from church policy for pastors, member responsibilities, and a report of a conference in Haiti.
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: Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal history / Rt. Rev. James A. Handy. Philadelphia, PA. : A.M.E. Book Concern, [1902?] xv, 421 p. : ill., ports.

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