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Preface to the Second Edition | |
Introduction | |
From Africa Through Early America | |
Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture | |
African Religions in Colonial Jamaica | |
Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier | |
"Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" | |
Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists | |
A Black Puritan's Farewell | |
Slave Religions in the Antebellum South | |
Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible | |
"Proud of the 'Ole Time' Religion" | |
Conjuration and Witchcraft | |
"Great Moral Dilemma" | |
Religion and Slave Insurrection | |
Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ | |
Slave Songs and Spirituals | |
Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle | |
"Life Experience and Gospel Labors" | |
Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church | |
A Female Preacher among the African Methodists | |
African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State | |
"Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion" | |
"Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston" | |
"To the Citizens of New York" | |
Black Churches in New York City, 1840 | |
Protesting the "Negro Pew" | |
"I Will Not Live a Slave" | |
"Welcome to the Ransomed" | |
Freedom's Time of Trial: 1865-World War I | |
From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen | |
"The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" | |
Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South | |
"Education in the A.M.E. Church" | |
The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist | |
"The Regeneration of Africa" | |
Emigration to Africa | |
The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889 | |
1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention | |
Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ | |
"Of the Faith of the Fathers" | |
"The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906" | |
"What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District" | |
From the Great Migration to World war II | |
Address on the Great Migration African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops | |
"Dear Mary" and "My dear Sister" | |
Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church | |
Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life | |
Report of the Work of Baptist Women | |
Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia | |
A Letter from the "Foreign Field" | |
"Things of the Spirit" | |
"The Genius of the Negro Church" | |
"The Churches of Bronzeville" | |
Twentieth-Century Religious Alternatives | |
Garvey Tells His Own Story | |
"Organized Religion and the Cults" | |
Black Judaism in Harlem | |
"The Realness of God, to you-wards..." | |
Elder Lucy Smith | |
"Self-Government in the New World" | |
CIvil Rights, Black Theology, and Beyond | |
"National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights" | |
"Letter from Birmingham Jail--April 16, 1963" | |
Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom | |
"The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope" | |
"Black Power" Statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black Theology" Statement, June 13, 1969 | |
"Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go From Here?" | |
"The Black Churches: A New Agenda" | |
Index | |
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