Hard-Fighting Soldiers
Hard-Fighting Soldiers In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. The journey begins with a lesser known preacher, F. F. Robinson provides a…
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Hard-Fighting Soldiers
In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. The journey begins with a lesser known preacher, F. F. Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church's improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression.
Robinson then builds on scholarship treating well-known figures, including Marshall Keeble and G. P. Carson, in many ways a forerunner in the struggles and triumphs awaiting the preachers and lay people in the congregations to come. Bowser, to present a wide-ranging history of African American Churches of Christ from their beginnings--when enslaved people embraced the nascent Stone-Campbell Christian Movement even though founder Alexander Campbell himself favored slavery.
The author moves on to examine how the churches grew under the leadership of S. R. Cassius, even as Jim Crow restrictions put extreme