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The History of Black Catholics in the United States
by Cyprian Davis. 347 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Religious Orders and Congregations

Chapter 1: African Roots

Chapter 2: Catholic Settlers and Catholic Slaves: a Church in Chains

Chapter 3: Christ's Image in Black: the Black Catholic Community Before the Civil War

Chapter 4: Builders of Faith: Black Religious Women Before and After the Civil War

Chapter 5: A Golden Opportunity for a Harvest of Souls: the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1866

Chapter 6: Shepherds with Black Skins: the First African American Catholic Priests

Chapter 7: "A Humble Experiment . . . an Entering Wedge": the Emergence of the Black Catholic Laity

Chapter 8: Black and Catholic: a Testimony of Faith

Chapter 9 Coming of Age: Black Catholics in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk: Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic Theology
by Jamie T. Phelps. 183 pgs.

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Acknowledgement

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Reading Texts Through Worlds, Worlds Through Texts

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The African American Experience and U.S. Roman Catholic Ethics: "Strangers and Aliens No Longer?"

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About the Contributors

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A Fire in the Bones : Reflections on African-American Religious History (Chap. 6 "Minority Within a Minority: The History of Black Catholics in America")
by Albert J. Raboteau. 224 pgs.

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Preface

Prologue: Praying the Abcs: Reflections on Faith in History

Part I in Search of the Promised Land: African-American Religion and American Destiny

Chapter One: African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel

Chapter Two: "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America

Chapter Three: "How Far the Promised Land?" Black Religion and Black Protest

Part II Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The Black Church

Chapter Four: Richard Allen and the African Church Movement

Chapter Five: The Black Church: Continuity Within Change

Chapter Six: Minority Within a Minority: the History of Black Catholics in America

Part III the Performed Word: Religious Practice

Chapter Seven: The Chanted Sermon

Chapter Eight: The Conversion Experience

Chapter Nine: A Hidden Wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Epilogue: A Fire in the Bones

Notes

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The Southern Common People: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Social History ("The Failed Mission: The Catholic Church and Black Catholics in the Old South" begins on p. 37)
by Edward Magdol, Jon L. Wakelyn. 390 pgs.

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Preface Who Were the Common People?

Part I the Common People of the Antebellum South

Introduction

Reflections of "Democracy" in Revolutionary South Carolina? the Composition of Military Organizations and the Attitudes and Relationships of the Officers and Me n, 1775-1780

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The Farmers Possess the Land

The Failed Mission: The Catholic Church and Black Catholics in the Old South

Public Schools

Law and Order in Savannah, 1850-1860

The Structure of the Free Negro Caste in the Antebellum United States

The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation

The Effects of Slavery Upon Nonslaveholders

A Middle-Class, Border-State Family During the Civil War

Part I: Suggested Readings

Part II the Common People of the Postwar South

Introduction

Notes

Against the Gentry: an Inquiry into a Southern Lower-Class Community and Culture, 1865-1870

Race and Reconstruction: Edgefield County, South Carolina

Town and Country in the South, 1850-1880: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Social Structures

Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece

Women in the Southern Farmers' Alliance: A Reconsideration of the Role and Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth-Century South

"Irrespective of Party, Color or Social Standing": The Knights of Labor and Opposition Politics in Richmond, Virginia

Notes

Populist Dreams and Negro Rights: East Texas as a Case Study

On Goodwyn's Populists

Textile Workers in a Tobacco County: a Comparison Between Yarn and Weave Mill Villagers

Appendix

Part Ii: Suggested Readings

Afterword

Index

Contributors to Part I

Contributors to Part II
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Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860
by Diane Batts Morrow. 336 pgs.

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Founded in Baltimore in 1828, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African-American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood, Batts Morrow demonstrates the centrality of race in the Oblate experience.

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Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time

Introduction

Chapter One: The Charter Members of the Oblate Sisters

Chapter Two: James Hector Joubert's a Kind of Religious Society

Chapter Three: The Development of Oblate Community Life and Group Identity

Chapter Four: The Oblate Sisters and the Baltimore Black Community

Chapter Five: The Oblate Sisters and the Institutional Church

Chapter Six: The Oblate Sisters and the Baltimore White Community

Chapter Seven: The Oblate Sisters and the End of an Era, 1840–1843

Chapter Eight: The Oblate Sisters in the Crucible, 1844–1847

Chapter Nine: The Maturation of the Oblate Community, 1847–1860

Chapter Ten: The Oblate Sisters and the Black Community, 1847–1860

Chapter Eleven: The Oblate Sisters and the White Community, 1847–1860

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

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Black Catholic Theology: A Historical Perspective, in Theological Studies
by Cyprian Davis. 16 pgs.

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Communion Ecclesiology and Black Liberation Theology, in Theological Studies
by Jamie T. Phelps. 28 pgs.

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Cornel West's Challenge to the Catholic Evasion of Black Theology, in Theological Studies
by Mary C. Doak. 20 pgs.

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Black Liberaion Theology and Black Catholics: A Critical Conversation, in Theological Studies
by James H. Cone. 17 pgs.

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Tradition and the Traditions of African American Catholicism, in Theological Studies
by M. Shawn Copeland. 24 pgs.

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Holy Family Parish: The Genesis of an African-American Catholic Community in Natchez, Mississippi, in The Journal of Negro History
by Richard M. Tristano. 26 pgs.

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Growing Together: Blacks and the Catholic Church in Boston, in The Historian
by William C. Leonard. 24 pgs.

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