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| | Joseph C. Hartzell (Joseph Crane), 1842-1929. Methodism and the Negro in the United States. From The Journal of Negro ... |
 | | Methodism grew with the colonies, and at the close of the American Revolution had 84 preachers and 15,000 members in its societies. |
 | | Shut away from the large Negro populations of the South, and confronted with aggressive African Methodism among the smaller Negro population in the North calling for separation from the whites in ecclesiastical organization and government, the field of operation of the Methodist Episcopal Church was necessarily proscribed among Africa's sons and daughters. |
 | | She was, however, faithful to her trust and retained her Negro membership in church and conference relations, and, as the years went by, became more and more permeated with sentiments of antagonism to slavery, both as related to the church and the nation. |
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