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1 online resource (373 pages) |
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Preface and Acknowledgments; 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 Founder's Expanding Visions; Last Rights |
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Conclusion: Richard Allen and the Soul of Black ReformNotes; Index; About the Author |
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An Interview with the Author on the History News Network. A Founding Father with a Vision of Equality : Richard Newman's op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Author Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. "Gold" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category. Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic. A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Allen inaugurated some of the most important institutions in |
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Print version record |
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Allen, Richard, 1760-1831.
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Allen, Richard, 1760-1831. fast (OCoLC)fst00093659 |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church -- History
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African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Bishops -- Biography
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African Methodist Episcopal Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00544497 |
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Bishops -- United States -- Biography
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Bishops.
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United States.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814759011 |
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0814759017 |
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