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Black Indians and freedmen. The African Methodist Episcopal Church and indigenous Americans, 1816–1916. By Christina Dickerson-Cousin. Pp. xvi + 236 incl. 6 ills, 3 tables and 2 maps. Chicago–Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2021. $26 (paper). 978 0 252 08625 0

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Black Indians and freedmen. The African Methodist Episcopal Church and indigenous Americans, 1816–1916. By Christina Dickerson-Cousin. Pp. xvi + 236 incl. 6 ills, 3 tables and 2 maps. Chicago–Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 2021. $26 (paper). 978 0 252 08625 0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2023

Mélena Laudig
Mélena Laudig*
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Princeton
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , October 2023 , pp. 894 - 896
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References

1 See Nell Irvin Painter, Exodusters: Black migration to Kansas after Reconstruction, New York 1976, and Kenneth Marvin Hamilton, Black towns and profit: promotion and development in the trans-Appalachian West, 1877–1915, Chicago, Il 1991. See also the forthcoming work of Cori Tucker-Price, currently titled The people's platform: Black religion and the forging of Black resistance in Los Angeles, 1903–1953, which will help fill the gap in historical work focused on African American religion in the American West.

2 For more on the transnational scope of AME missions see James T. Campbell, Song of Zion: the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa, Chapel Hill, NC 1998, and Lawrence S. Little, Disciples of liberty: the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the age of imperialism, 1884–1916, Knoxville, Tn 2000. See also the forthcoming monograph of Christina C. Davidson, currently titled The myth and the middleman: religious race-making at the Dominican crossroads, which highlights the role of the AME Church in shaping racial formation in the Dominican Republic.

3 Sylvester A. Johnson, African American religions, 1500–2000, Cambridge 2015.