| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864–1905. By Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xvi, 252 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2778-0.)

The African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church, sometimes confused with the older and larger African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, commenced competition for members and territory with its black Wesleyan rival in the early nineteenth century. Though both were founded and largely located in the North, opportunities to evangelize ex-slaves after the Civil War drew the denominations into the former Confederacy. Despite their missionary zeal and expansionist strategies, the two religious bodies experienced uneven successes in the southern states. The AMEZ Church, for example, outdistanced the AMEs in North Carolina, but the opposite was true in neighboring South Carolina. In Florida, however, the AME Church, which arrived shortly after the AMEZs, swiftly dwarfed its competitor in both membership and political influence.

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