2 BRYAN EDWARDS, African Religions in Colonial Jamaica

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. I. FROM AFRICA THROUGH EARLY AMERICA
6. 1 OLAUDAH EQUIANO, Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture 13
7. 2 BRYAN EDWARDS, African Religions in Colonial Jamaica 20
8. 3 FRANCIS LE JAU, Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier 25
9. 4 JUPITER HAMMON, ''Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" 34
10. 5 GEORGE LIELE AND ANDREW BRYAN, Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists 44
11. 6 LEMUEL HAYNES, A Black Puritan's Farewell 52
12. II. SLAVE RELIGION IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH
13. 7 PETER RANDOLPH, Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible 63
14. 8 SISTER KELLY, "Proud of that 'Ole Time' Religion" 69
15. 9 HENRY BIBB, Conjuration and Witchcraft 76
16. 10 JAMES W. C. PENNINGTON, "Great Moral Dilemma" 81
17. 11 NAT TURNER, Religion and Slave Insurrection 89
18. 12 FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ 102
19. 13 THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, Slave Songs and Spirituals 112
20. III. BLACK CHURCHES NORTH OF SLAVERY AND THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE
21. 14 RICHARD ALLEN, "Life Experience and Gospel Labors" 139
22. 15 CHRISTOPHER RUSH, Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 155
23. 16 JARENA LEE, A Female Preacher among the African Methodists 164
24. 17 NATHANIEL PAUL, African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State 185
25. 18 DAVID WALKER, "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion" 193
26. 19 MARIA STEWART, "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston" 202
27. 20 PETER WILLIAMS, "To the Citizens of New York" 211
28. 21 CHARLES B. RAY, Black Churches in New York City, 1840 218
29. 22 JEREMIAH ASHER, Protesting the "Negro Pew" 224
30. 23 JERMAIN W. LOGUEN, "I Will Not Live a Slave" 228
31. 24 DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE, "Welcome to the Ransomed" 232
32. IV. FREEDOM'S TIME OF TRIAL: 1865-WORLD WAR I
33. 25 ISAAC LANE, From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen 245
34. 26 LUCIUS H. HOLSEY, "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" 251
35. 27 WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South 256
36. 28 DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE, "Education in the A.M.E. Church" 261
37. 29 AMANDA SMITH, The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist 270
38. 30 ALEXANDER CRUMMELL, "The Regeneration of Africa" 282
39. 31 HENRY MCNEAL TURNER, Emigration to Africa 289
40. 32 AFRICAN AMERICAN CATHOLICS, The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889 296
41. 33 ELIAS C. MORRIS, 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention 301
42. 34 ELSIE W. MASON, Bishop C. H. Mason, Church of God in Christ 314
43. 35 w. E. B. DUBOIS, "Of the Faith of the Fathers" 325
44. 36 REVERDY C. RANSOM, "The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906" 337
45. 37 ROSA YOUNG, "What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District" 347
46. V. FROM THE GREAT MIGRATION TO WORLD WAR II
47. 38 AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL COUNCIL OF BISHOPS, Address on the Great Migration 359
48. 39 LETTERS ON THE SECOND EXODUS: "Dear Mary" and "My dear Sister" 364
49. 40 S. MATTIE FISHER AND MRS. JESSIE MAPP, Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church 368
50. 41 LACY KIRK WILLIAMS, Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life 372
51. 42 NANNIE H. BURROUGHS, Report of the Work of Baptist Women 376
52. 43 JASPER C. CASTON, Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia 403
53. LULA E. COOPER, A Letter from the "Foreign Field" 410
54. 44 CARTER G. WOODSON, "Things of the Spirit" 415
55. 45 BENJAMIN E. MAYS AND JOSEPH W. NICHOLSON, "The Genius of the Negro Church" 423
56. 46 ST. CLAIR DRAKE AND HORACE R. CAYTON, "The Churches of Bronzeville" 435
57. VI. TWENTIETH-CENTURY RELIGIOUS ALTERNATIVES
58. 47 MARCUS GARVEY, Garvey Tells His Own Story 453
59. 48 MILES MARK FISCHER, "Organized Religion and the Cults" 464
60. 49 RABBI MATTHEW, Black Judaism in Harlem 473
61. 50 FATHER DIVINE, "The Realness of God, to you-wards ... " 478
62. 51 HERBERT MORRISOHN SMITH, Elder Lucy Smith 487
63. 52 WALLACE D. MUHAMMAD, "Self-Government in the New World" 499
64. VII. CIVIL RIGHTS, BLACK THEOLOGY, AND BEYOND
65. 53 JOSEPH H. JACKSON, "National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights 511
66. 54 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., "Letter from Birmingham Jail-April 16, 1963" 519
67. 55 MAHALIA JACKSON, Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom 536
68. 56 HOWARD THURMAN, "The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope" 548
69. 57 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK CHURCHMEN, "Black Power" Statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black Theology" Statement, June 13, 1969 555
70. 58 JAMES H. CONE, "Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go from Here?" 567
71. 59 LAWRENCE N. JONES, "The Black Churches: A New Agenda" 580
72. Index 589