Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding FathersNYU Press, 1 mars 2008 - 376 sidor Freedom’s Prophet is a biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African American church and leading black activist of America’s early nation. Gold Winner of the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Richard Allen inaugurated some of the most important institutions in African American history, influencing nearly every black leader of the nineteenth century, from Frederick Douglass to W. E. B. Du Bois. Born a slave in colonial Philadelphia, Allen secured his freedom during the American Revolution, becoming one of the nation’s leading black activists before the Civil War. Among his achievements, Allen helped form the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, co-authored the first copyrighted pamphlet by an African American writer, published the first African American eulogy of George Washington, and convened the first national convention of Black reformers. In a time when most Black men and women were categorized as slave property, Allen was championed as a Black hero. In Freedom’s Prophet, history professor Richard S. Newman describes Allen's continually evolving life and thought, setting both in the context of his times. From Allen's antislavery struggles and belief in interracial harmony to his reflections on Black democracy and Black emigration, Newman traces Allen's impact on American reform and reformers, on racial attitudes of the early republic, and on the Black struggle for justice in the age of Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. Whether serving as America’s first Black bishop, challenging slave-holding statesmen in a nation devoted to liberty, or visiting the President's House (the first Black activist to do so), Allen’s achievements place him in the pantheon of Americas great founding figures. |
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... white abolitionists , he eventually bought property , married , and turned to racial - uplift projects in the last two decades of the eighteenth century . Dexter joined Allen's Free African Society , which developed the art of community ...
... white abolitionists , he eventually bought property , married , and turned to racial - uplift projects in the last two decades of the eighteenth century . Dexter joined Allen's Free African Society , which developed the art of community ...
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... abolitionists , civil rights reformers , and antislavery statesmen . At the ... white founders " came to believe that religion , for all its faults , was an ... white Americans saw the Revolutionary War through the lens of Exodus ( with ...
... abolitionists , civil rights reformers , and antislavery statesmen . At the ... white founders " came to believe that religion , for all its faults , was an ... white Americans saw the Revolutionary War through the lens of Exodus ( with ...
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... white officials soon paid his expenses. (Allen's dedication extended to “Indian natives,” among whom he spent nearly two months preaching.) Allen distinguished himself as a businessman too, abolitionists continued, for his dry-goods ...
... white officials soon paid his expenses. (Allen's dedication extended to “Indian natives,” among whom he spent nearly two months preaching.) Allen distinguished himself as a businessman too, abolitionists continued, for his dry-goods ...
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... white abolitionists for legal aid . In some cases , black runaways proved so irritating and costly to slaveholders inside and outside Pennsylvania that masters ended up striking bargains with slaves . In exchange for pledges against ...
... white abolitionists for legal aid . In some cases , black runaways proved so irritating and costly to slaveholders inside and outside Pennsylvania that masters ended up striking bargains with slaves . In exchange for pledges against ...
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... white abolitionists about working with the rising black preacher . The PAS sought to investigate the matter but had trouble locating the young lad , " owing to his being employed [ by Allen so far ] from home . " White abolitionists ...
... white abolitionists about working with the rising black preacher . The PAS sought to investigate the matter but had trouble locating the young lad , " owing to his being employed [ by Allen so far ] from home . " White abolitionists ...
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Allens Antislavery Appeal | |
Allens Role as a Black Mediator | |
Establishing the AME Church | |
Stay or Go? Allen and African Colonization | |
Shadow Politics and Community Conflict in the 1820s | |
A Black Founders Expanding Visions | |
Last Rights | |
Richard Allen and the Soul of Black Reform | |
Notes | |
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Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black ... Richard S. Newman Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2009 |
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