A short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America / written by Christopher Rush with the aid of George Collins ; also, a concise view of church order of government, from Scripture, and from some of the best authors on the subject of church government, relative to episcopacy.
Traces the history of the establishment of the Zion Church from its emergence in 1796 New York City. Discussing the emergence of the "Allenites," the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in New York, Rush explains the relationship between the two black church movements. Drawing upon church reports and addresses, Rush gives details of the Church's founders, the establishment of a hierarchy, names of church deacons and elders. It also includes the articles of agreement between the General Conference of Methodist Episcopals and the A.M.E. Zion Church and the 1820 articles of agreement between the Asbury and Zion Churches, as well as the listing of the number and locations of A.M.E.Z. Churches in existence in 1820.
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- Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
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- General Note:
- Text scanned (OCR) by Kathryn Lofton. Images scanned by Kathryn Lofton. Text encoded by Courtney L. Vien and Jill Kuhn Sexton.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.Title from electronic title page.
- Original Version Note:
- Transcribed from: A short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America / written by Christopher Rush with the aid of George Collins ; also, a concise view of church order of government, from Scripture, and from some of the best authors on the subject of church government, relative to episcopacy. New York : C. Rush, 1866. 107 p. Published by the author in 1843, republished by Christopher Rush, Charles William Robinson, Abraham Cole, and James Simmons in 1866. "A sketch of the author's life"--Page 107.
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- Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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