Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Birth of a Nation, Birth of a Church; 2. The Baltimore Meeting: Saints, Cemeteries, and Savages; 3. Race Consciousness; 4. The Savannah Meeting:"The Bogey of Social Equality"; 5. The Final Three Meetings: The Problem of Missions and the Urgency of Patriots; Epilogue; Appendix: List of Delegates to the Joint Commission with Biographical Notes; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary
In the early part of the twentieth century, Methodists were seen by many Americans as the most powerful Christian group in the country. Ulysses S. Grant is rumored to have said that during his presidency there were three major political parties in the U.S., if you counted the Methodists. The Methodist Unification focuses on the efforts among the Southern and Northern Methodist churches to create a unified national Methodist church, and how their plan for unification came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways. How did these Methodists conceive of what they had just fo
