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Freedom's prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / Richard S. Newman.

by Newman, Richard S.

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New York : New York University Press, c2008.

Allen, Richard, 1760-1831.

African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Bishops -- Biography.

African Methodist Episcopal Church -- History.

Bishops -- United States -- Biography.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007043259-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007043259-d.html

9780814758267 (cl : alk. paper) :

0814758266 (cl : alk. paper)

xiii, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: A Black founder's many worlds -- "For Zion's sake ... I will not rest" -- Gospel labors -- The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people -- The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal -- "We participate in common" : Allen's role as a Black mediator -- A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church -- Stay or go? : Allen and African colonization -- Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s -- A Black founders' expanding visions -- Last rights -- Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.

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