Author: African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Articles of Association of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of the City of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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In the Shadow of the Gallows
Author: Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders—even slaves—appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists—most notably, Frederick Douglass—could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders—even slaves—appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists—most notably, Frederick Douglass—could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.
American Lazarus
Author: Joanna Brooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195160789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of American literary history. It argues that the origins of modern African-American and American Indian literatures emerged at the revolutionary crossroads of religion and racial formation.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195160789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of American literary history. It argues that the origins of modern African-American and American Indian literatures emerged at the revolutionary crossroads of religion and racial formation.
The Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Richard Robert Wright
Publisher:
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Category : African American Mathodists
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Containing principally the biographies of the men and women, both ministers and laymen, whose labors during a hundred and sixty years, helped make the AME Church what it is; Also short historical sketches of Annual Conferences, educational institutions, General Departments, Missionary Societies of the AME Church, and general information about: historical, theological, sociological, legal and other matters concerning African Methodism and the Christian church in general.
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Category : African American Mathodists
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Containing principally the biographies of the men and women, both ministers and laymen, whose labors during a hundred and sixty years, helped make the AME Church what it is; Also short historical sketches of Annual Conferences, educational institutions, General Departments, Missionary Societies of the AME Church, and general information about: historical, theological, sociological, legal and other matters concerning African Methodism and the Christian church in general.
"The Budget of 1904"
Author: African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Category : African American churches
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : African American churches
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen
Author: Richard Allen
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Daniel Alexander Payne
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Daniel Alexander Payne
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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