{"id":61399,"date":"2022-01-20T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61399"},"modified":"2022-01-20T02:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:28:37","slug":"black-indians-and-freedmen-the-african-methodist-episcopal-church-and-indigenous-americans-1816-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61399","title":{"rendered":"Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Illinois Press<\/a>
December 2021
256 pages
6 black & white photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables
6 x 9 in.
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-04421-2
Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-08625-0<\/p>\n

Christina Dickerson-Cousin<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n

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The union of Native Americans and a black church institution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Often seen as ethnically monolithic, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church<\/a> in fact successfully pursued evangelism among diverse communities of indigenous peoples and Black Indians<\/a>. Christina Dickerson-Cousin tells the little-known story of the AME Church\u2019s work in Indian Territory<\/a>, where African Methodists engaged with people from the Five Civilized Tribes<\/a> (Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles) and Black Indians with various ethnic backgrounds. These converts proved receptive to the historically black church due to its traditions of self-government and resistance to white hegemony, and its strong support of their interests. The ministers, guided by the vision of a racially and ethnically inclusive Methodist<\/a> institution, believed their denomination the best option for the marginalized people. Dickerson-Cousin also argues that the religious opportunities opened up by the AME Church throughout the West<\/a> provided another impetus for black migration.<\/p>\n

Insightful and richly detailed, Black Indians and Freedmen illuminates how faith and empathy encouraged the unique interactions between two peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n

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