Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940
by Robert Gregg
Temple University Press, 1998 Cloth: 978-1-56639-063-7 | Paper: 978-1-56639-664-6 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-0611-8 Library of Congress Classification BX8445.P5G74 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 287.874811
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
While assuming the importance of churches within black communities, social historians generally have not studied them directly or have treated the black denominations as a single unit. Gregg focuses on the African Methodist churches and churchgoers in Philadelphia during the Great Migration and the concurrent rise of black ghettoes in the city to show the variety and richness of African American culture at that time.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert Gregg is Assistant Professor of History at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and currently a Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.
REVIEWS
"Gregg's work is nicely nuanced, convincingly supported, and attractively presented. . . . His work will undoubtedly be useful to both social and religious historians in advancing their understanding of this pivotal period in American (and African-American) history." -- Journal of American History
"Building on the tradition of community studies, of E.P. Thompson, Kenneth Kusmer, and Joe William Trotter, Gregg brings an intricacy and sophistication to his analysis that is admirable." -- Emma Lapsansky, Haverford College, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"This is a valuable and insightful study. It challenges very effectively the argument that the established churches didn't help migrants and hence contributed to their 'failure to make good' in the North. The author deserves special praise for his assessment of what the Philadelphia churches actually did do, and the reasons for their failure to attract more of the newcomers. It adds much to our understanding of the nature of the Great Migration." -- Julie Winch, History, University of Massachusetts
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Maps and Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Part I Churches and Ghettos
2 "Drowned by a Torrent of Migration"
3 Evangelism and Social Service
Part II "In the Pulpit and the Pew"
4 Uplifting "Backward Peoples"
5 "Pulpit Extension"
6 Service and Prestige
7 "Flaming Torches"
Part III The "Great Migration"
8 Many "Promised Lands"
9 The Earnest Pastor's Heated Term
10 "Let This Be Your Home"
11 Conclusion
Notes
Index
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Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940
by Robert Gregg
Temple University Press, 1998 Cloth: 978-1-56639-063-7 Paper: 978-1-56639-664-6 eISBN: 978-1-4399-0611-8
While assuming the importance of churches within black communities, social historians generally have not studied them directly or have treated the black denominations as a single unit. Gregg focuses on the African Methodist churches and churchgoers in Philadelphia during the Great Migration and the concurrent rise of black ghettoes in the city to show the variety and richness of African American culture at that time.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert Gregg is Assistant Professor of History at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and currently a Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.
REVIEWS
"Gregg's work is nicely nuanced, convincingly supported, and attractively presented. . . . His work will undoubtedly be useful to both social and religious historians in advancing their understanding of this pivotal period in American (and African-American) history." -- Journal of American History
"Building on the tradition of community studies, of E.P. Thompson, Kenneth Kusmer, and Joe William Trotter, Gregg brings an intricacy and sophistication to his analysis that is admirable." -- Emma Lapsansky, Haverford College, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"This is a valuable and insightful study. It challenges very effectively the argument that the established churches didn't help migrants and hence contributed to their 'failure to make good' in the North. The author deserves special praise for his assessment of what the Philadelphia churches actually did do, and the reasons for their failure to attract more of the newcomers. It adds much to our understanding of the nature of the Great Migration." -- Julie Winch, History, University of Massachusetts
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Maps and Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Part I Churches and Ghettos
2 "Drowned by a Torrent of Migration"
3 Evangelism and Social Service
Part II "In the Pulpit and the Pew"
4 Uplifting "Backward Peoples"
5 "Pulpit Extension"
6 Service and Prestige
7 "Flaming Torches"
Part III The "Great Migration"
8 Many "Promised Lands"
9 The Earnest Pastor's Heated Term
10 "Let This Be Your Home"
11 Conclusion
Notes
Index
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