Christina Dickerson-Cousin

Black Indians and Freedmen

The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is a venerable, Wesleyan religious body that formerly enslaved people established in 1816. Although this denomination is historically Black, it has never been racially exclusive. Scholars have largely minimized the AME Church's ethnic diversity and have specifically ignored its impact within Native communities. This book corrects these unnecessarily narrow views by emphasizing the AME Church's evangelism within diverse Native communities throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result of this evangelism, the denomination fulfilled the vision of its founder, Richard Allen, who imagined a racially and ethnically inclusive Methodist ecclesia. The outreach of African Methodists to Indigenous people started at the denomination's inception and led to the ordination of such Indigenous ministers as Thomas Sunrise, who was Oneida, and John Hall, who was Ojibwe. AME ministries to Native people reached their apex in Indian Territory, where African Methodists engaged with the Five Civilized Tribes. This book strengthens existing scholarship on Black and Native interactions. This study on the AME Church is the first to comprehensively examine Native peoples' interactions with a historically Black institution"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Powerhouse Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780252044212
• ISBN-10: 0252044215
• Artikelnr.: 63983434

Autorenporträt

Christina Dickerson-Cousin

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Terminology xiii
Introduction: The Drums of Nonnemontubbi 1
1 Richard Allen, John Stewart, and Jarena Lee: Writing Indigenous Outreach
into the DNA of the AME Church, 1816–1830 12
2 Seeking Their Cousins: The AME Ministries of Thomas Sunrise and John
Hall, 1850–1896 34
3 The African Methodist Migration and the All-Black Town Movement 57
4 “Ham Began . . . to Evangelize Japheth”: The Birth of African Methodism
in Indian Territory 82
5 “Blazing Out the Way”: The Ministers of the Indian Mission Annual
Conference 100
6 Conferences, Churches, Schools, and Publications: Creating an AME Church
Infrastructure in Indian Territory 119
7 “All the Rights . . . of Citizens”: African Methodists and the Dawes
Commission 154
Notes 173
Index 227