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Africa and African Methodism [electronic resource] / Ridgel, Alfred Lee.

Ridgel, Alfred Lee. (Author). Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915 (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

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Africa and African Methodism is Ridgel's favorable account of his 1893 missionary trip to Sierra Leone in Western Africa. He describes the people and the country, urges African-Americans to take pride in their roots and encourages black Americans to emigrate to Africa. He proposes the theory that the founders of the Egyptian civilization were African and sees Africa as a rich opportunity for the growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its missions. The book concludes with a short history of Methodism in Africa and biographical sketches.

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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

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Text scanned (OCR) by Richard Musselwhite. Images scanned by Richard Musselwhite. Text encoded by Robin Roenker and Jill Kuhn.
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.
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Transcribed from: Africa and African Methodism / by Rev. Alfred Lee Ridgel, A.B., presiding elder of the Liberia Annual Conference African Methodist Episcopal Church, West Coast of Africa ; with an introduction by Bishop H.M. Turner, D.D., LL. D., D.C.L., presiding Bishop of Africa. Atlanta, Ga. : Franklin printing and publishing co., 1896. 116 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; Panorama for SGML files.
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Ridgel, Alfred Lee.
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African Methodist Episcopal Church > Clergy > Biography.
African Methodist Episcopal Church > Missions > Africa.
African American missionaries > Biography.
African Americans > Arkansas > Biography.
Black people > Religion
Methodist Church > Africa > History > 19th century.
Missions > Africa.

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