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Between fetters and freedom : African American Baptists since emancipation / edited by Edward R. Crowther and Keith Harper ; with an afterword by Wayne Flynt.

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Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, c2015.

African American Baptists -- History.

Baptists, Black -- History.

African Americans -- Southern States -- Religion -- History.

United States -- Church history.

9780881465402 (hbk.) :

James N. Griffith series in Baptist studies.

261 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction / Edward R. Crowther and Keith Harper -- Vindicated faith, not a lost cause: African American Baptist identity and vision in the Civil War and postwar eras, 1850-1900 / Sandy Dwayne Martin -- North Carolina's black Baptists and the predicament of emancipation / Charles F. Irons -- From Cary to Colley: the Ethiopian factor in the formation of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention / Eric Michael Washington -- Annie Walker Armstrong, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and cooperation among Baptist women of the South across racial divides / April C. Armstrong -- "The Holy Spirit come to us": black Baptist organizations and cultural practices from Reconstruction to the rise of gospel music / Paul Harvey -- Racial destiny and Christian ideals: M.C. Allen and the National Baptist Convention of America / Alan Scot Willis -- "Living in the face of death": Prathia Hall in Southwest Georgia / Courtney Pace Lyons -- "That the rules be suspended": denominational political culture and schism within the National Baptist Convention, 1895-1962 / Edward R. Crowther -- Hilarity and hope: the homegoing of Fred Shuttlesworth / Andrew M. Manis -- Afterword / Wayne Flynt.

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