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THE HISTORY OF THE
NEGRO CHURCH


By
CARTER G. WOODSON, Ph.D.
Editor of the Journal of Negro History, author of A. Century of
Negro Migration, and of the Education of the
Negro Prior to 1861.

SECOND EDITION

THE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS
WASHINGTON, D. C.
(1921)

To the Cherished Memory of
My Mother
ANNE ELIZA WOODSON

CONTENTS
330 pages

  Page
PREFACE  
CHAPTER   PAGE
I - Early Missionaries and the Negro - Finished 1/1/2025 1
     
II. - The Dawn of the New Day - Started 1/1/2025 23
     
III. - Pioneer Negro Preachers 40
     
IV. - The Independent Church Movement 71
     
V. - Early Development 100
     
VL. - The Schism and the Subsequent Situation 123
     
VII. - Religious Instruction Revived 148
     
VIII. - Preachers of Versatile Genius 167
     
IX - The Civil War and the Church 185
     
X. - Religious Education as a Preparation 202
     
XI. - The Call of Politics 220
     
XII. - The Conservative and Progressive 247
     
XIII. - The Negro Church Socialized 266
     
XIV. - The Recent Growth of the Negro Church 286
     
XV. - The Negro Church of To-day 300
     
INDEX 315

ILLUSTRATIONS

A Christianized African Frontispiece
  Facing Page
Directing the Wanderer in the right Way 23
The Oldest Negro Baptist Church in the United States 23
Lemuel Haynes 32
Andrew Bryan 40
Richard Allen 71
James Varick 82
Peter Williams 95
Christopher Bush 100
Lott Cary 123
M. C. Clayton 129
Sampson White 140
Josiah Henson 148
Noah Davis 158
Samuel R. Ward 167
Alexander Crummell 175
J. W. C. Pennington 178
Henry Highland Garnett 180
Daniel A. Payne 185
Richard DeBaptiste 190
W. H. Miles 196
Wilberforce During the Civil War 202
William J. Simmons 206
James Poindexter 210
J. C. Price 214
H. M. Turner 220
B. W. Arnett 227
W. B. Derrick 231
J. W. Hood 236
J. W. Hood 236
L. H. Holsey 240
Rufus L. Perry 243
Charles t. Walker 247
John Jasper 255
E. K. Love 260
W. R. Pettiford 266
M. O. B. Lee 286
Alexander Walters 300

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