Lorenzo Dow
By: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1832-1939
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: Clergy; Biography; Missionaries; Abolitionists; Camp meetings; Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Journal of Negro history.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: In this short article from the Journal of Negro History, Brawley writes about Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834), a white itinerant preacher who traveled through the South in the early nineteenth century. An abolitionist, Dow was barred from the Methodist Church because of his independent nature and disregard for the Church establishment.
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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.

Text scanned (OCR) by Richard Musselwhite. Images scanned by Richard Musselwhite. Text encoded by Sarah Reuning and Jill Kuhn.

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Transcribed from: Lorenzo Dow / [Benjamin Brawley]. p. 265-275. Caption title. This text was originally published in: The Journal of Negro history, vol. 1, [no. 3, July] 1916.

Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.

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