1. Apostolic Church Apostolic Fathers Church Councils Church History Ca. 30AD590 AD1517 AD Golden Age of Church Fathers Reformation & Counter Reformation Rationalism, Revivalism, & Denominationalism Revivalism, Missions, & Modernism ? Ancient Church HistoryMedieval Church HistoryModern Church History The Pre-Reformers The First Medieval Pope The Rise of the Holy Rom Emp The Crusades The Papacy in Decline

2. “Rise Up & Shout” The Black Church in America CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 30

3. I. Slavery in America A.Coming of the slaves 1619 Dutch ship at Jamestown Samuel Sewell The Selling of Joseph John Wolman and the Society of Friends Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (Mt. 7:14) OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY B. EARLY MINISTRY AMONG SLAVES C. OPPOSITION TO EVANGELISM John ElliotCotton Mather 1. No soul; less than human 2. Awkward to have slave as brother 3. Couldn’t work on Sabbath! 4. “Free in Christ” equals “free man”

4. D. CONVERSION OF THE SLAVES 1. First Great Awakening Samuel Davies George Whitefield “He prayed that grace in ev’ry heart might dwell, He longed to see America excell: Take him, ye Africans, he longs for you, ‘Impartial Savior’ is his title due; Washed in the fountain of redeeming blood, You shall be sons, and kings, and priests to God.” “Nearly 50 Negroes came to give me thanks for what God had done to their souls” Phillis Wheatley

5. “slaves were given the resources for constructing their own slave religion in evangelical terms that eventually led to the creation of an autonomous black church” (Stout, The Divine Dramatist, 218) Preaching Spirituals Late 18 th and early 19 th centuries “The Dawn of a New Day” How did this happen? Carter Woodson “The History of the Black Church” Methodist: 1783 (3,200)1819 (32,000) Baptists: 1790 (14,000)1817 (40,000+)

6. II. White Missions to Blacks Charles C. Jones “The Apostle to the Negro Slaves” “The religious instruction of our servants is a duty. Any man with a conscience may be made to feel it. It can be discharged…it must be discharged” (emphasis author)

7. John Girardeau (1825-1898) Zion Presbyterian Church How do we sum up our views of the white Southern preacher?

8. III. The Invisible Institution ‘the secret black church in the South’ Albert Raboteau “White fo’ks have deir servic in de mornin’, an’ de (negroes) have deirs in de evenin’, a’ter dey clean up, wash de dishes, an’ look a’ter everything….Ya’ see (negroes), lack (like) ta shout a whole lot, an’ wid de white fo’ks al’round ‘em, dey couldn’t shout jes’ lack dey want to” Sarah Fitzpatrick, Alabama slave Private “hush meetings” Public camp meetings Greatest gift:Spirituals

9. IV. Black Baptist Churches in the South George Liele (c. 1750-1825/28) Silver Bluff, SC 1773/74 First African American Baptist Church, Savannah 1778

10. SavannahFirst African Baptist Church 1783Jamaica Ethiopian Baptist Church

11. Andrew Bryan (1737-1812)

12. John C Jasper (1812-1901)

13. V. Methodist/Richard Allen (1760-1831) Bethel M. E. Church, 1794 1815 – African Methodist Episcopal Church

14. Daniel Payne

15. Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)