Faith in Their Own Color : : Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City /

Faith in Their Own Color : : Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City / / Craig Townsend.

On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and took their seats among five hundred wealthy and powerful white church leaders. Ultimately, and with great reluctance, the Convention had acce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Townsend, Craig,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Religion and American Culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Improper Associates
  • 2. Freedom's Defects
  • 3. Hobart and the High Church
  • 4. One of Their Own Colour
  • 5. An Orderly and Devout Congregation
  • 6. A Bitter Thralldom
  • 7. A Godly Admonition
  • 8. Peculiar Circumstances
  • 9. The Chains That Bind
  • 10. Promoting Improvement
  • 11. Partaking of the Heavenly Gift
  • 12. To Employ a Colored Clergyman
  • 13. A State of Schism
  • 14. A Bishop's Trials
  • 15. Exciting the Deepest Feelings
  • 16. Vouchsafed to All Men
  • 17. The Heart Must Be Changed
  • 18. The Beauties of Freedom
  • 19. Economic Opportunity and Religious Choice
  • 20. Attentive to Their Devotions
  • 21. The Express Wishes of Nearly All
  • 22. Injurious to the Cause of Religion
  • 23. A Fulness of Assent
  • 24. But One Fold and One Chief Shepherd
  • Appendix. Parishioners of St. Philip's Church
  • Notes
  • Index

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