Joseph R. Wilson (Joseph Ruggles), 1835-1903
Mutual
Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible: A Discourse Preached
in the First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia, on Sabbath Morning, Jan.
6, 1861.
Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1861.
Some Letters of Richard Allen and Absalom Jones to Dorothy Ripley, Richard Allen; Absalom Jones , The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 1, No. 4. (Oct., 1916), pp. 436-443.
Address to Christians of All Denominations on the Inconsistency of Admitting
Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership
Prize contest essay published in 1831 by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF)
(DOC)
All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
One of the earliest North American antislavery works, published by Benjamin
Lay in 1737 in Philadelphia. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
(PDF) (DOC)
Appeal
to the Christian Women of the South
A leading early US antislavery appeal from Angelina Grimke. Digitized by University
of Virginia.
AN ANALYSIS OF NEGRO CHURCHES IN CHICAGO BIBLIOGRAPHY - AN ANALYSIS OF NEGRO CHURCHES IN CHICAGO by SUTHERLAND, ROBERT LEE, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1930
A Discourse, Delivered at the African Meeting-House
An 1808 sermon delivered by Jedidiah Morse commemorating the abolition of the
slave trade (Boston: Lincoln and Edmands). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature
Project. (PDF) (DOC)
The Bible Vindicated from the Charge of Sustaining Slavery
A religious tract of biblical disputation published in Columbus, Ohio, in 1837
by Goodsell Buckingham, a local Methodist antislavery lecturer. Digitized by
the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF)
(DOC)
Color-Caste
A tract arguing against post-emancipation segregation in the Methodist Church,
by Rev. Thomas Pearne, a leading church figure (Dayton, Ohio: n.p., 1876). Digitized
by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF) (DOC)
Narrative of the Anti-Slavery Experience of a Minister in the Methodist E.
Church, Who Was Twice Rejected by the Philadelphia Annual Conference, and Finally
Deprived of a License to Preach for Being an Abolitionist
An 1845 autobiographical narrative by Lucius Matlack, a leading figure of American
Methodism, concerning his experience as a religious abolitionist. Digitized
by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF)
(DOC)
An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
A New Year's sermon given by George Lawrence in New York City in 1813, on the
fifth anniversary of the banning of slave importation into the United States
(New York, 1813). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF)
(DOC)
A Thanksgiving Sermon
Annotated edition of a January 1, 1808 sermon by Absalom Jones, of the St. Thomas
African Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, commemorating the end of legal importation
of slaves into the United States. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
(PDF) (DOC)
Slaves Bought and Sold
An anonymous religious antislavery tract published in Buffalo, New York during
the 1840s. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF)
(DOC)
History of the Afro-American group of the Episcopal Church , Bragg, George F. (George Freeman), 1863-1940 Baltimore, Md. : Church Advocate Press 1922
The Negro Church and the World-War, Miles Mark Fisher, The Journal of Religion, Vol. 5, No. 5. (Sep., 1925), pp. 483-499. (PDF)
REV.
WILLIAM HENRY HEARD, From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church.
An Autobiography, 1928
Memoir of Rev. Heard who progressed from enslavement in Georgia to a ministry
that took him to Liberia and throughout Europe. In Documenting the American
South, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
REV.
ISAAC LANE, Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, L.L.D.: With a Short History
of the C.M.E. Church in America and of Methodism, 1916
A blend of personal memoir and church history. In Documenting the American South,
from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
REV.
DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE (A.M.E. bishop)
Selections in Documenting the American South, from The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Recollections of Seventy Years, 1888
SARA
J. DUNCAN, Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses with Illustrations
and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives, 1906
"A sketch of the doings and labors of the women of our race" by Sara
Duncan, the general superintendent of the A.M.E. Church Women's Home and Foreign
Missionary Society. In Documenting the American South, from The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
PETER
RANDOLPH, From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit. The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph:
the Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life, 1893
Memoir of an African American Baptist minister; note Chapters 7 and 8: "Religious
Condition" and "Religion at the Close of the War." In Documenting
the American South, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries