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Author Harris, Paul William

Title A Long Reconstruction Racial Caste and Reconciliation in the Methodist Episcopal Church
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (253 p.)
Summary After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? The Methodist Episcopal Church (the northern branch of the denomination created in an 1844 schism) faced a unique challenge when they went south in the wake of the Civil War. A Long Reconstruction details the denomination's journey with unification and justice. Decades after political Reconstruction ended in 1877, the Church's Black members and their white allies kept up a struggle against racial caste, but they encountered numerous disappointments
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Methodist Episcopal Church -- History.
African Methodist Episcopal Church -- History
SUBJECT African Methodist Episcopal Church fast
Methodist Episcopal Church fast
Subject Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Episcopal Church.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Episcopal Church
Racism -- United States -- History
Race relations
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Episcopal Church
Racism
Religion
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History
United States -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197571842
0197571840