Overview
After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? A schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M. E. Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination. A Long Reconstruction details the denomination's journey with unification and justice. African Americans who joined did so in a spirit of hope that through religious fellowship and cooperation they could gain respect, acceptance, and ultimately equality and brotherhood with whites. However, as segregation gradually took hold in the South, many northern Methodists evinced the same skepticism as white southerners about the fitness of African Americans for positions of authority and responsibility in an interracial setting. The African American membership was never without strong white allies who helped to sustain the Church's official stance against racial caste but the M. E. Church placed a growing priority on putting their broken union back together.
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Author: Paul William Harris ,
Langston Darby
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798212313735
Publication Date: 27 September 2022
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Paul William Harris is the author of Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions. For thirty-two years, he was a faculty member at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where his teaching fields included African American history and the history of religion in the US. He received his BA in American studies and history from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and his MA and PhD in American culture from the University of Michigan. In addition to narration, Langston Darby works on stage, camera, and voice-over. Some of his latest work includes voicing characters in Looney Tunes' Bugs and Daffy's Thanksgiving Road Trip, becoming a member of Actors' Equity Association, and creating original comedic characters for stage and digital platforms. Based in New York, Langston is a native of Southern Mississippi.
