The African Methodist Episcopal or AME church was a northern black church preaching to southern freed people. They came out of protest because the Methodist church in New York was discriminating against black, early black New Yorkers. So they felt almost as if ordained by a higher power, they were the really right people to go south. The particular ministers they sent south were also very unique and just empowered individuals who started congregations.
Featuring Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civl War and Reconstruction.
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