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Welcoming justice
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ISBN: 0830873902 9780830873906 9780830834792 0830834796 Year: 2018 Publisher: Downers Grove


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White allies in the struggle for racial justice
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ISBN: 1608336158 9781608336159 9781626981492 1626981493 Year: 2015 Publisher: Maryknoll, New York

Evangelism and resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835
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ISBN: 1282553046 9786612553042 0820336335 9780820336336 9780820327983 0820327980 Year: 2008 Publisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press,

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This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.


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From every mountainside : black churches and the broad terrain of civil rights
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ISBN: 1461935431 9781461935438 1438447264 9781438447261 9781438447254 1438447256 Year: 2013 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,


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The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian history, 1868-1967
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ISBN: 1782045481 1299456618 1580467962 1580464475 Year: 2013 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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After her conversion to Christianity and baptism at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, Michigan, and was received into ordained ministry. She was the first ordained woman to serve in Canada, and spent her life building churches and working for racial justice on both sides of the national border. In this first extended study of Jennie Johnson's fascinating and understudied life, Nina Reid-Maroney reconstructs Johnson's nearly one-hundred-year story -- from her upbringing in a slave refugee settlement in nineteenth-century Canada to her work as an activist and Christian minister in the modern civil rights movement. This critical biography of a figure who outstripped the racial and religious barriers of her time offers a unique and powerful view of the struggle for freedom in North America. Nina Reid-Maroney is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Huron University College at Western (London, Ontario) and the coeditor of "The Promised Land: History and Historiography of Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements".

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