Fifty years in the gospel ministry, from 1864 to 1914
Subtitle: twenty-seven years in the pastorate : sixteen years' active service as Chaplain in the U.S. Army : seven years professor in Wilberforce University : two trips to Europe : a trip to Mexico : in two parts, with appropriate illustrations
By: by Theophilus Gould Steward ; introduction by Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom
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; Clergy; Biography; African American Methodists; African American clergy; Military chaplains; Chaplains; Description and travel; African Methodist Episcopal Church; United States. Army
Other titles: From 1864 to 1918, fifty years in the gospel ministry; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Autobiography of Theophilus G. Steward, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, including his life as an itinerant pastor in the A.M.E. Church and his experience as an army chaplain, where he recounts some of the racist incidents he encountered. The second part describes his travels through Scotland, England, France and Italy with historical and social background on the country and people and his impressions of museums, universities, churches, and other cultural highlights along the way. Steward also notes the more liberated racial climate in Europe as opposed to the United States. Finally, Steward concludes his book with a description of the Universal Races Congress in 1911.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: Fifty years in the gospel ministry, from 1864 to 1914 : twenty-seven years in the pastorate : sixteen years' active service as Chaplain in the U.S. Army : seven years professor in Wilberforce University : two trips to Europe : a trip to Mexico : in two parts, with appropriate illustrations / by Theophilus Gould Steward ; introduction by Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom. Philadelphia, Pa. : printed by A.M.E. Book Concern, [1921?] 520 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm. Errata inserted between viii and ix and on page 520.

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Table of contents: title: General Conference of 1864; title: Second trip South; title: Work in Charleston, S.C.; title: General Conference of 1868; title: Meeting of the Philadelphia Conference; title: Work at Zion Mission Church, Philadelphia; title: The New Union Church, Philadelphia; title: Dedication of Metropolitan Church; title: Appointment as chaplain in the army; title: Voyage to the Philippines; title: Coming home; title: Early dreams and their fulfilment; title: Edinborough; title: York; title: London; title: Paris; title: Southern France; title: To Italy and Rome.