Craig Townsend: 1 book
Faith in Their Own Color
Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and took their seats among five hundred wealthy and powerful white church leaders. Ultimately, and with great reluctance, the Convention had acceded...
