African American Religious History: A Documentary WitnessMilton C. Sernett This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents--many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to find--include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, journalistic accounts, and theological statements. In this volume Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan's farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee becomes a female preacher among the African Methodists. Frederick Douglass discusses Christianity and slavery. Isaac Lane preaches among the freedmen. Nannie Helen Burroughs reports on the work of Baptist women. African Methodist bishops deliberate on the Great Migration. Bishop C. H. Mason tells of the Pentecostal experience. Mahalia Jackson recalls the glory of singing at the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes from the Birmingham jail. Originally published in 1985, this expanded second edition includes new sources on women, African missions, and the Great Migration. Milton C. Sernett provides a general introduction as well as historical context and comment for each document. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
FROM AFRICA THROUGH EARLY AMERICA | 11 |
OLAUDAH EQUIANO Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture | 13 |
BRYAN EDWARDS African Religions in Colonial Jamaica | 20 |
francis Le Jau Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier | 25 |
JUPITER HAMMON Address to the Negroes in the State of New York | 34 |
GEORGE LIELE and Andrew BRYAN Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists | 44 |
LEMUEL HAYNES A Black Puritans Farewell | 52 |
DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE Education in the A M E Church | 261 |
AMANDA SMITH The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist | 270 |
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL The Regeneration of Africa | 282 |
HENRY MCNEAL TURNER Emigration to Africa | 289 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN CATHOLICS The First African American Catholic Congress 1889 | 296 |
ELIAS C MORRIS 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention | 301 |
Elsie w Mason Bishop C H Mason Church of God in Christ | 314 |
W E B DUBOIS Of the Faith of the Fathers | 325 |
SLAVE RELIGION IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH | 61 |
Visible and Invisible | 63 |
SISTER KELLY Proud of that Ole Time Religion | 69 |
HENRY BIBB Conjuration and Witchcraft | 76 |
JAMES W C PENNINGTON Great Moral Dilemma | 81 |
NAT TURNER Religion and Slave Insurrection | 89 |
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ | 102 |
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Slave Songs and Spirituals | 112 |
BLACK CHURCHES NORTH OF SLAVERY AND THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE | 137 |
RICHARD ALLEN Life Experience and Gospel Labors | 139 |
CHRISTOPHER RUSH Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | 155 |
JARENA LEE A Female Preacher among the African Methodists | 164 |
NATHANIEL PAUL African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State | 185 |
DAVID WALKER Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion | 193 |
MARIA STEWART Mrs Stewarts Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston | 202 |
PETER WILLIAMS To the Citizens of New York | 211 |
CHARLES B RAY Black Churches in New York City 1840 | 218 |
JEREMIAH ASHER Protesting the Negro Pew | 224 |
JERMAIN W LOGUEN I Will Not Live a Slave | 228 |
DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE Welcome to the Ransomed | 232 |
1865WORLD WAR I | 243 |
ISAAC LANE From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen | 245 |
LUCIUS H HOLSEY The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church | 251 |
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN Black Religion in the PostReconstruction South | 256 |
REVERDY C RANSOM The Race Problem in a Christian State 1906 | 337 |
ROSA YOUNG What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District | 347 |
FROM THE GREAT MIGRATION TO WORLD WAR II | 357 |
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL COUNCIL OF BISHOPS Address on the Great Migration | 359 |
Dear Mary and My dear Sister | 364 |
S MATTIE FISHER AND MRS JESSIE MAPP Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church | 368 |
LACY KIRK WILLIAMS Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life | 372 |
JASPER C CASTON Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission | 403 |
Negro Church | 423 |
ST CLAIR DRAKE AND HORACE R CAYTON The Churches | 435 |
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MILES MARK FISCHER Organized Religion and the Cults | 464 |
RABBI MATTHEW Black Judaism in Harlem | 473 |
WALLACE D MUHAMMAD SelfGovernment in the New World | 499 |
JOSEPH H JACKSON National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights | 511 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR Letter from Birmingham JailApril | 519 |
5555 | 536 |
Hope | 548 |
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK CHURCHMEN Black Power | 555 |
Where Do | 567 |
A New Agenda | 580 |
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