A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism

by J. Gordon Melton

Book Overview

A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742552659
• ISBN13: 9780742552654
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"