Freedom's prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / / Richard S. Newman.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 359 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.