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Building the Black Community: The Church
By: Vincent Stanec & Erin Wright
It quickly became clear that to African Americans, freedom did not just mean release from the shackles of southern plantations – to them, it meant autonomy as a community and within families, economic independence, and equality under the law.
Eric Foner’s The Meaning of Freedom Thesis
Following the abolition of slavery post-Civil war, African Americans sought to establish their first sense of community and identity through the creation of a separate and wholly black church. Through this church, African Americans of the reconstruction period sought to further their call for equality and strengthen their identity, both as people and a community.
The Creation of the Black Church Thesis
Antebellum South: Biracial Congregations
Withdrawal: Wholly African-American Congregations
We are the Chosen Ones
Churches: Architecturally & Financially Modest
Faith: Important in African-American Community
Church: Center of African-American Community
Spirituality: Distinctive African-American Faith
Leaders: In Politics and Religion
Congregations: Spirit of Self-Improvement
Hon. H.R. Revels, United States Senator Elect from Mississippi. February 19, 1870. HarpWeek. Harper's Weekly, 2004. Web. 16 Dec. 2011. http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/7Illustrations/Reconstruction/HRRevels.htm
Jackson, M, Jr. Family Worship In a Plantation in South Carolina. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African Americans. Shomburg Center for African American History New York Public Library, 1999. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/aa19c_info.cfm?
Moore, Joanna P. BANNER BIBLE BAND, NASHVILLE, TENN. 1902. Photograph. "In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches., Chicago. Documenting the American South. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/moore/ill28.html
Photograph. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African Americans. Shomburg Center for African American History New York Public Library, 1999. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/aa19c_info.cfm?
Photograph. King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation. King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. http://www.kingtisdell.org/Jubilee2.jpg
Religion So Sweet. 1867. Photograph. Documenting the American South. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/allen/ss17.jpg
Sheppard, W. L. Interior View of the First African Baptist Church in Richmond. 1874. Digital History: America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War. Harper's Weekly, 2011. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section2/section2_07b.html
White, Elizabeth. All God's Chillun's Got Wings! 1933. Soft-ground etching and aquatint. Courtesy of the Sumter Gallery of Art, South Carolina. African American Odyssey. Library of Congress. Web. 3 Jan. 2012. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5b.html
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the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Containing Principally the Biographies of the Men and Women, both Ministers and Laymen, Whose Labors During a Hundred Years, Helped Make the A. M. E. Church What It Is; Also Short Historical Sketches of Annual Conferences, Educational Institutions, General Departments, Missionary Societies of the A. M. E. Church, and General Information about African Methodism and the Christian Church in General; Being a Literary Contribution to the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Denomination by Richard Allen and others, at Philadelphia, Penna., in 1816. 1916. JPEG file.
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