Chapter 3: Urban Black Protestants and the predicament of emancipation
Charles F. Irons
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Published:
26 Jan 2018
Page Range:
43–58
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112857.00010
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Chapter 3 examines African American religious leadership during the Reconstruction period. Charles F. Irons discusses the differences in church leadership and autonomy between urban and rural southern areas as contrasting emancipation experiences. Irons argues that the development of independent African American churches, especially in urban areas, was a way of breaking from white paternalism, and further discusses the correlation between religious power and political power.

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Cover Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial (in)Justice
Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial (in)Justice
Edited by
Julian M. Hayter
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George R. Goethals
Monograph Book
Published:
26 Jan 2018
Print ISBN:
9781788112840
eISBN:
9781788112857
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112857
Pages:
200
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018
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