001479881 000__ 06355nam\a22009615i\4500 001479881 001__ 1479881 001479881 003__ DE-B1597 001479881 005__ 20231026035115.0 001479881 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479881 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479881 008__ 230918t20082008nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479881 020__ $$a9780814759011 001479881 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814759011.001.0001$$2doi 001479881 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547031 001479881 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479881 0410_ $$aeng 001479881 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479881 050_4 $$aBX8473 .N889 2008 001479881 072_7 $$aHIS036030$$2bisacsh 001479881 08204 $$a973.0496073 001479881 1001_ $$aNewman, Richard S., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479881 24510 $$aFreedom's Prophet :$$bBishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers /$$cRichard S. Newman. 001479881 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2008] 001479881 264_4 $$c©2008 001479881 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479881 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479881 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479881 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479881 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479881 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface and Acknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction: A Black Founder's Many Worlds -- $$t1 "For Zion's Sake . . . I Will Not Rest" -- $$t2 Gospel Labors -- $$t3 The Year of the Fever, Part 1: A (Deceptively) Simple Narrative of the Black People -- $$t4 The Year of the Fever, Part 2: Allen's Antislavery Appeal -- $$t5 "We Participate in Common": Allen's Role as a Black Mediator -- $$t6 A Liberating Theology: Establishing the AME Church -- $$t7 Stay or Go? Allen and African Colonization -- $$t8 Allen Challenged: Shadow Politics and Community Conflict in the 1820s -- $$t9 A Black Founder's Expanding Visions -- $$t10 Last Rights -- $$tConclusion: Richard Allen and the Soul of Black Reform -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479881 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479881 520__ $$aAn Interview with the Author on the History News NetworkA Founding Father with a Vision of Equality: Richard Newman's op-ed in The Philadelphia InquirerAuthor Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle"Gold" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography CategoryFreedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic. A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Allen inaugurated some of the most important institutions in African-American history and influenced nearly every black leader of the nineteenth century, from Douglass to Du Bois.Allen (1760-1831) was born a slave in colonial Philadelphia, secured his freedom during the American Revolution, and became one of the nations leading black activists before the Civil War. Among his many achievements, Allen helped form the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, co-authored the first copyrighted pamphlet by an African American writer, published the first African American eulogy of George Washington, and convened the first national convention of black reformers. In a time when most black men and women were categorized as slave property, Allen was championed as a black hero. As Richard S. Newman writes, Allen must be considered one of America's black Founding Fathers.In this thoroughly engaging and beautifully written book, Newman describes Allen's continually evolving life and thought, setting both in the context of his times. From Allen's early antislavery struggles and belief in interracial harmony to his later reflections on black democracy and black emigration, Newman traces Allen's impact on American reform and reformers, on racial attitudes during the years of the early republic, and on the black struggle for justice in the age of Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. Whether serving as Americas first black bishop, challenging slaveholding statesmen in a nation devoted to liberty, or visiting the President's House (the first black activist to do so), this important book makes it clear that Allen belongs in the pantheon of Americas great founding figures. 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