Black Church Beginnings : The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years,9780802827852

Black Church Beginnings : The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years

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ISBN13: 9780802827852
ISBN10: 0802827853
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-15
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Author Biography

Henry H. Mitchell is retired from a wide-ranging academic career as a professor of history, black church studies, and homiletics, most recently at the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction xv
The African Roots of the African American Church
1(22)
Slave Population and Conversions: The Silent Years of 1619-1750
23(23)
The Very First Black Congregations: 1750-1800
46(25)
Trends Impacting the Early Black Churches up to 1900
71(11)
The Spread of the African American Churches, 1801-1840
82(16)
African American Church Expansion, 1841-1865, and Denominational Bodies
98(32)
Social Activism in the Early Black Church
130(11)
African American Schools and Churches: New Roles in Reconstruction
141(34)
Epilogue 175(7)
Appendix I: Black Church Growth in the North: 1801-1840 182(7)
Appendix II: Bishop Rush's A.M.E. Zion Report of Churches to 1843 189(1)
Appendix III: Black Church Growth in the South 190(3)
Appendix IV: Black Church Beginnings in Overseas Missions 193(1)
Index 194

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