African American religious history : a documentary witness

Preface to the Second Edition ixIntroduction 1I. From Africa Through Early America 1. Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture / Olaudah Equiano 132. African Religions in Colonial Jamaica / Bryan Edwards 203. Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier / Francis Le Jau 254. "Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" / Jupiter Hammon 345. Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists / George Liele and Andrew Bryan 446. A Black Puritan's Farewell / Lemuel Haynes 52II. Slave Religions in the Antebellum South 7. Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible / Peter Randolph 638. "Proud of the 'Ole Time' Religion" / Sister Kelly 699. Conjuration and Witchcraft / Henry Bibb 7610. "Great Moral Dilemma" / James W.C. Pennington 8111. Religion and Slave Insurrection / Nat Turner 8912. Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ / Frederick Douglass 10213. Slave Songs and Spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson 112III. Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle 14. "Life Experience and Gospel Labors" / Richard Allen 13915. Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Christopher Rush 15516. A Female Preacher among the African Methodists / Jarena Lee 16417. African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State / Nathaniel Paul 18518. "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion" / David Walker 19319. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston" / Maria Stewart 20220. "To the Citizens of New York" / Peter Williams 21121. Black Churches in New York City, 1840 / Charles B. Ray 21822. Protesting the "Negro Pew" / Jeremiah Asher 22423. "I Will Not Live a Slave" / Jermain W. Loguen 22824. "Welcome to the Ransomed" / Daniel Alexander Payne 232IV. Freedom's Time of Trial: 1865-World War I 25. From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen / Isaac lane 24526. "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" / Lucius H. Holsey 25227. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South / William Wells Brown 25628. "Education in the A.M.E. Church" / Daniel Alexander Payne 26129. The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist / Amanda Smith 27030. "The Regeneration of Africa" / Alexander Crummell 28231. Emigration to Africa / Henry McNeal Turner 28932. The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889 / African American Catholics 29633. 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention / Elias C. Morris 30134. Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ / Elsie W. Mason 31435. "Of the Faith of the Fathers" / W.E.B. Dubois 32536. "The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906" / Reverdy C. Ransom 33737. "What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District" / Rosa Young 347V. From the Great Migration to World war II 38. Address on the Great Migration / African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops 35939. "Dear Mary" and "My dear Sister" / Letters on the Second Exodus 36440. Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church / S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie Mapp 36841. Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life / Lacy Kirk Williams 37242. Report of the Work of Baptist Women / Nannie H. Burroughs 37643. Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia / Jasper C. Caston 403A Letter from the "Foreign Field" / Lula E. Cooper 41044. "Things of the Spirit" / Carter G. Woodson 41545. "The Genius of the Negro Church" / Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson 42346. "The Churches of Bronzeville" / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton 435VI. Twentieth-Century Religious Alternatives 47. Garvey Tells His Own Story / Marcus Garvey 45348. "Organized Religion and the Cults" / Miles Mark Fischer 46449. Black Judaism in Harlem / Rabbi Matthew 47350. "The Realness of God, to you-wards..." / Father Divine 47851. Elder Lucy Smith / Herbert Morrisohn Smith 48752. "Self-Government in the New World" / Wallace D. Muhammad 499VII. CIvil Rights, Black Theology, and Beyond 53. "National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights" / Joseph H. Jackson 51154. "Letter from Birmingham Jail--April 16, 1963" / Martin Luther King, Jr. 51955. Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom /Mahalia Jackson 53656. "The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope" / Howard Thurman 54857. "Black Power" Statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black Theology" Statement, June 13, 1969 55558. "Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go From Here?" / James H. Cone 56759. "The Black Churches: A New Agenda" / Lawrence N. Jones 580Index 589