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"When Methodism came from England to America in the 1760's, slavery was a thriving institution in the colonies. Methodists immediately opposed it and sought the conversion of blacks. Many joined. Methodism offered a brotherhood of salvation and a belief in the sacredness of all people."

"Dark Salvation is the story of Methodism as it developed in the United States and the role it played in the lives of blacks."

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Beginnings of Methodism
The Slave and His Religion

Methodism Comes to America
Methodism and Slavery
The Beginnings of Separation
The First Great Separate: the African Methodist Episcopal Church
The Second Great Separate: The African Methodis Episcopal Zion Church

Continuing Methodism
The Mission to the Slaves
Early Black Methodist Preachers

The A.M.E. Church
The A.M.E. Zion Church
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodism in Mission

Current Developments
The Black Man in United Methodism
Summary and Prospect

Notes
Index

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Product Description
This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2758 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more