Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976..
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Bicentennial of the United States of America
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976..
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Dividing the Faith
Author: Richard J BolesPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479801674
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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.
Directory of American Scholars
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Architecture Series: Bibliography
Author: A Resourceful People
Author: Rachel D. BlivenPublisher: Donning Company Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Bethlehem Revisited
Author: Floyd I. BrewerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963540201
Category : Bethlehem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Community activities directory
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Final master register, Committee chairpersons of Bicentennial communities, Bicentennial colleges and universities campuses, Bicentennial Armed Forces installations & commands
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community life
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Doolittle Family in America
Author: William Frederick DoolittlePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016855594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Sand Lake
Author: Mary D. FrenchPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738505404
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Sand Lake Township lies just south of Troy and east of Albany. This community was a center of water-powered industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Dams on Crystal, Glass, and Burden Lakes provided waterpower for mills along the Wynantskill and finally for the largest waterwheel in North America at Burden Iron Works in Troy. When the railway arrived, the township with its seven lakes and numerous hotels blossomed into a tourist destination. In Sand Lake you will find Dr. Smith Boughton as "Big Thunder" in the Anti-Rent Wars of the mid-1800s, coded messages issued from church pulpits for transporting slaves via the Underground Railroad, Uline's Infallible Remedy cure-all, the Park Pharmacy soda fountain manned by teenager (later comedian) Jerry Lewis, and Gov. Theodore Roosevelt at Brown's Crooked Lake House.