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Black Indians and freedmen : the African Methodist Episcopal Church and indigenous Americans, 1816-1916 Cover Image

Black Indians and freedmen : the African Methodist Episcopal Church and indigenous Americans, 1816-1916 / Christina Dickerson-Cousin.

Dickerson, Christina, (author.).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780252044212
ISBN: 0252044215
ISBN: 9780252086250
ISBN: 0252086252
Physical Description: xii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-226) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The drums of Nonnemontubbi -- Richard Allen, John Stewart, and Jarena Lee: writing indigenous outreach into the DNA of the AME Church, 1816-1830 -- Seeking their cousins: the AME ministries of Thomas Sunrise and John Hall, 1850-1896 -- The African Methodist migration and the all-Black town movement -- "Ham began.. to evangelize Japheth": the birth of African Methodism in Indian territory -- "Blazing out the way": the ministers of the Indian Mission Annual Conference -- Conferences, churches, schools, and publications: creating an AME Church infrastructure in Indian territory -- "All the rights...of citizens": African Methodists and the Dawes Commission.