Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City

Craig D. Townsend

November, 2005
Cloth, 256 pages, none
ISBN: 978-0-231-13468-2
$48.50 / £28.50

Acknowledgments

1. Improper Associates

2. Freedom’s Defects

3. Hobart and the High Church

4. One of Their Own Colour

5. An Orderly and Devout Congregation

6. A Bitter Thralldom

7. A Godly Admonition

8. Peculiar Circumstances

9. The Chains That Bind

10. Promoting Improvement

11. Partaking of the Heavenly Gift

12. To Employ a Colored Clergyman

13. A State of Schism

14. A Bishop’s Trials

15. Exciting the Deepest Feelings

16. Vouchsafed to All Men

17. The Heart Must Be Changed

18. The Beauties of Freedom

19. Economic Opportunity and Religious Choice

20. Attentive to Their Devotions

21. The Express Wishes of Nearly All

22. Injurious to the Cause of Religion

23. A Fulness of Assent

24. But One Fold and One Chief Shepherd

Appendix: Parishioners of St. Philip’s Church

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Religion
• New York City
• Race and Ethnicity

Series

• Religion and American Culture

About the Author

Craig D. Townsend is an Episcopal priest and associate rector for education at St. James’ Church in New York City. He received his doctorate in the study of religion from Harvard University.

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