Author: William T. CattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Semi-centenary Discourse, Delivered in the First African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the Fourth Sabbath of May, 1857
Author: William T. CattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Semi-centenary Discourse delivered in the first African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia ... 1857: with a history of the church from its first organization: including a brief notice of Rev. John Gloucester, its first pastor, etc
Author: William T. CattoA Semi-centenary Discourse, Delivered in the First African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the Fourth Sabbath of May, 1857
Author: William T. CattoSEMI-CENTENARY DISCOURSE DELIV
Author: William T. CattoPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373245809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
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A Semi-Centenary Discourse
Author: William T. CattoPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375159544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Forging Freedom
Author: Gary B. NashPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674309333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children, and train leaders who would help abolish slavery.
Dividing the Faith
Author: Richard J. BolesPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479803189
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches Phillis Wheatley was stolen from her family in Senegambia, and, in 1761, slave traders transported her to Boston, Massachusetts, to be sold. She was purchased by the Wheatley family who treated Phillis far better than most eighteenth-century slaves could hope, and she received a thorough education while still, of course, longing for her freedom. After four years, Wheatley began writing religious poetry. She was baptized and became a member of a predominantly white Congregational church in Boston. More than ten years after her enslavement began, some of her poetry was published in London, England, as a book titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This book is evidence that her experience of enslavement was exceptional. Wheatley remains the most famous black Christian of the colonial era. Though her experiences and accomplishments were unique, her religious affiliation with a predominantly white church was quite ordinary. Dividing the Faith argues that, contrary to the traditional scholarly consensus, a significant portion of northern Protestants worshipped in interracial contexts during the eighteenth century. Yet in another fifty years, such an affiliation would become increasingly rare as churches were by-and-large segregated. Richard Boles draws from the records of over four hundred congregations to scrutinize the factors that made different Christian traditions either accessible or inaccessible to African American and American Indian peoples. By including Indians, Afro-Indians, and black people in the study of race and religion in the North, this research breaks new ground and uses patterns of church participation to illuminate broader social histories. Overall, it explains the dynamic history of racial integration and segregation in northern colonies and states.
Francis Johnson (1792-1844)
Author: Charles Kelley JonesPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780934223867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"Johnson pursued all phases of his music with unmatched skill and fervor, even to the detriment of his health. At the time of his untimely death in 1844, Johnson had become the most prolific and widely traveled American composer, bandmaster, and performer in our nation's first century."--Jacket.
The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia, first published in 1841, was written by Joseph Willson, a southern black man who had moved to Philadelphia. He wrote this book to convince whites that the African-American community in his adopted city did indeed have a class structure, and he offers advice to his black readers about how they should use their privileged status. The significance of Willson's account lies in its sophisticated analysis of the issues of class and race in Philadelphia. It is all the more important in that it predates W. E. B. Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro by more than half a century. Julie Winch has written a substantial introduction and prepared extensive annotation. She identifies the people Willson wrote about and gives readers a sense of Philadelphia's multifaceted and richly textured African American community. The Elite of Our People will interest urban, antebellum, and African-American historians, as well as individuals with a general interest in African-American history. This volume has withstood the test of time. It remains readable. Joseph Willson was well read, articulate, and had a keen eye for detail. His message is as timely today as it was in 1841. The people he wrote about were remarkable individuals whose lives were as complex as his own.
The American Church History Series
Author: Philip SchaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description