An Apology for African Methodism is a passionate and eloquent defense of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by one of its most prominent leaders, Benjamin T

Benjamin Tucker Tanner played an important role in the rise of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in the Southern States. In this volume he not onl

Part I traces the development of the A.M.E. Church as a reform movement motivated by the conflict between physical slavery and the possibility of spiritual free

Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first definitive guide to the history, beliefs, teachings, and

Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church examines important nineteenth-century social issues through the lens of the AME Church and its p