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200 10$aFreedom's prophet$b[electronic resource] $eBishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers /$fRichard S. Newman
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215   $a1 online resource (373 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-340) and index.
327   $aIntroduction: A Black founder's many worlds -- "For zion's sake ... I will not rest" -- Gospel labors -- The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people -- The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal -- "We participate in common" : Allen's role as a Black mediator -- A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church -- Stay or go : Allen and African colonization -- Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s -- A Black founders' expanding visions -- Last rights -- Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.
330   $aAn Interview with the Author on the History News Network. A Founding Father with a Vision of Equality : Richard Newman's op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Author Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ""Gold"" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category. Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic. A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Allen inaugurated some of the most important institutions in African
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