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A SEMINAL WORK ON AME CHURCH HISTORY

By Dennis C. Dickerson, Ph.D.

James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University

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The African Methodist Episcopal Church, beginning as a religious movement in the late 18th century, developed as a freedom advocate for blacks in the Atlantic World. Dr. Dickerson’s seminal work recounts how this black institution, across more than two centuries, weathered the inexorable demands produced by wars, the Civil Rights Movement, African decolonization, women’s empowerment, and an increased global presence.

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A Must-Have Historiography

Great for Church Libraries, Seminaries, and Clergy Members.

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What People Are Saying

Building upon his previous work, including the standout biography of Whitney Young, Rev. Dr. Dennis Dickerson has produced a magnum opus. This exhaustive survey of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is deeply researched, meticulously chronicled, and essential to understanding a foundational Black institution that is as old as the Constitution itself. The A.M.E. Church has been an inestimable fount of guidance, inspiration and leadership. With The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History, we have a volume wholly worthy of its subject.

William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D.
Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism
Columbia University
Staff Writer at The New Yorker

The African Methodist Episcopal Church can rightly claim to be the most “Wesleyan” of the branches of Methodism founded in North America, in that it never wavered concerning Wesley’s condemnation of slavery and affirmation of the full humanity of the peoples of Africa. Dennis Dickerson has devoted his career to exploring how this central branch of the Methodist family embraced and extended the liberationist trajectory of its Wesleyan roots. This volume distills his lifetime of study, drawing on an unparalleled range of resources. Highly recommended!

Randy L. Maddox, Ph.D.
William Kellon Quick Emeritus Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies
Duke Divinity School

Unparalleled Insight into the AME Legacy

This book:

  • Integrates the history of African Methodism, a major black religious body, within the broader historical landscape of American and African American history
  • Emphasizes the development of African Methodism in the context of the black Atlantic
  • Examines the tensions between managing the operations of a proud black religious body and the equally urgent need for frontline involvements in opposition to slavery, segregation, and colonialism.

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