Preface | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Scope of Resource Materials | |
A Review of Literature Regarding Pennington | |
The Approach of the Present Study | |
In Search of a Christian America: Pennington in the Religious and Cultural Pattern of the Nineteenth Century | p. 19 |
Distinguishing Characteristics of Evangelical Protestantism | |
Abolition: A Historical Sketch | |
The African-American Community in the North | |
The Fugitive Blacksmith | p. 37 |
Birth, Parentage, and Family | |
The Escape from Slavery | |
Conversion to Christianity | |
Preparing the Attack: Crusader for Freedom | |
From Fame to Death | |
Pennington and African-American Religion | p. 69 |
The African-American Religious Tradition in the United States | |
Pennington: Religion and Culture in Dialogue | |
Pennington as Preacher and Pastor | |
Pennington as Missionary Organizer | |
A Religion of Black Unity and Redemption: Pennington's Vision of the Black Race and Christianity | |
Pennington and the Abolition Movement | p. 103 |
Abolition: African-American and White | |
Pennington: Perspective on Abolition | |
Religion and Slavery | |
Pennington: Advocate of Liberation through Education, Civil Rights, and Civil War | p. 145 |
Education | |
Civil Rights and Public Accommodations | |
Civil War | |
Summary and Conclusion | p. 159 |
The Essence of Pennington | |
Pennington as Prophetic Pioneer | |
Some Ironies in Pennington's Life | |
African-American Church: Potential Leader of African-American Liberation through Religion | |
Appendix | p. 179 |
Bibliography | p. 187 |
Index | p. 201 |
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