A short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America
By: written by Christopher Rush with the aid of George Collins ; also, a concise view of church order of government, from Scripture, and from some of the best authors on the subject of church government, relative to episcopacy
Contributors: Collins, George, active 1843; 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 Zion Church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Traces the history of the establishment of the Zion Church from its emergence in 1796 New York City. Discussing the emergence of the "Allenites," the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in New York, Rush explains the relationship between the two black church movements. Drawing upon church reports and addresses, Rush gives details of the Church's founders, the establishment of a hierarchy, names of church deacons and elders. It also includes the articles of agreement between the General Conference of Methodist Episcopals and the A.M.E. Zion Church and the 1820 articles of agreement between the Asbury and Zion Churches, as well as the listing of the number and locations of A.M.E.Z. Churches in existence in 1820.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: A short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America / written by Christopher Rush with the aid of George Collins ; also, a concise view of church order of government, from Scripture, and from some of the best authors on the subject of church government, relative to episcopacy. New York : C. Rush, 1866. 107 p. Published by the author in 1843, republished by Christopher Rush, Charles William Robinson, Abraham Cole, and James Simmons in 1866. "A sketch of the author's life"--P. 107.

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