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The Effects of Slavery on the formation and history of the African-American Church in America

h century had been argues by the Methodists in the northern states soon after the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Staunchly abolitionist at its beginning, it stepped back from its position as its membership grew in the South. Northern congregations that had been integrated began to institute segregationist policies. African-Americans were relegated to balconies, were the last to be served communion, and were generally treated as second-class citizens Some walked out and formed all-Black congregations. Finally, in the early nineteenth century, the majority of free African-Americans in the North left the Methodist Episcopal Church to found three African-American denominations: The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Union Church of Africans. The first African-American Baptist churches in the North were organized in Boston (1804), New York (1808), and Philadelphia (1809). It was not until the 1830s that the first associations of churches were formed; these were the Providence Baptist Association in Ohio and the Wood River Association in Illinois. Missionary work by African-Americans led to the formation of most substantial organizations. The American Baptist Missionary Convention formed by African-Americans in 1840 not only sent foreign missionaries, but also directed the organization of Baptist freedmen after the Civil War.

In the South, African-American Baptists appeared as the church spread among slave owners. The first congregations of African-American Baptists were not organized until just before the American Revolution, however, because most slave owners were reluctant to allow independent organizations, including religious ones among the slaves. Many slaves formed secret church organizations that met clandestinely when possible. Methodist slaves were known from almost the time of MethodismÆs arrival in the colonies in the 1760s. Quite early they were ...

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