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Mother Emanuel : two centuries of race, resistance, and forgiveness in one Charleston church /

Few people beyond South Carolina's Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, Mother Emanuel, before the night of June 17, 2015, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church's charismatic pastor and eight...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sack, Kevin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, [2025].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) > History.
African American churches > History.
African Americans > Religion.
Charleston (S.C.) > Church history.
RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations.
Table of Contents:
  • The open door
  • The tragedy
  • Charleston's African diaspora, free and enslaved
  • Church and state
  • Richard Allen and the insurgency of African Methodism
  • The African church
  • Hot bed: the insurrection plot
  • Crackdown: the Vesey aftermath
  • Revival: African Methodism returns South
  • Resurrection: a new church rises
  • Mother church, and the daddy of reconstruction
  • The long and stormy night
  • B. J. Glover and the gospel of resistance
  • The movement church
  • Clementa Pinckney and the paradox of Black power
  • Judgment day
  • The healing
  • Epilogue: on forgiveness and grace.