Insightful and richly detailed, Black Indians and Freedmen illuminates how faith and empathy encouraged the unique interactions between two peoples.
|Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Terminology xiii
Introduction: The Drums of Nonnemontubbi 1
1 Richard Allen, John Stewart, and Jarena Lee: Writing Indigenous Outreach into the DNA of the AME Church, 1816–1830 12
2 Seeking Their Cousins: The AME Ministries of Thomas Sunrise and John Hall, 1850–1896 34
3 The African Methodist Migration and the All-Black Town Movement 57
4 "Ham Began . . . to Evangelize Japheth": The Birth of African Methodism in Indian Territory 82
5 "Blazing Out the Way": The Ministers of the Indian Mission Annual Conference 100
6 Conferences, Churches, Schools, and Publications: Creating an AME Church Infrastructure in Indian Territory 119
7 "All the Rights . . . of Citizens": African Methodists and the Dawes Commission 154
Notes 173
Index 227
|"An excellent study that analyzes the role of the AME Church members in westward expansion and migration who provided stability and institution building to many Black settlements in the West, incorporated Black Indians within the larger African American community, and evangelized among Native American populations."—Lawrence S. Little, author of Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916|Christina Dickerson-Cousin is an assistant professor of history at Quinnipiac University.