Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa

by James T. Campbell

Book Overview

Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church emerged in the nineteenth century as the preeminent black institution in the United States. In 1896, the church opened mission work in South Africa, absorbing an independent "Ethiopian" church founded by dissident African Christians a few years earlier. In the process, the church helped ignite one of the most influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847119
• ISBN13: 9780807847114
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"