| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City. By Craig D. Townsend. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xii, 241 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-13468-1.)

One of the most widely accepted truths about antebellum America is that Afro-Christian churches were the core of free black communities. African American disenchantment with white Protestantism spurred a nationalist movement toward the creation of black churches and an educated clerical elite. Scholarly focus is nearly always on such evangelical denominations as Methodists or Baptists. Craig D. Townsend's history of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, an African American offshoot of the reorganized Episcopalians, themselves direct descendants of the Church of England, presents an alternative to that evangelical model. In his nuanced account of St. Philip's hard-won origins, Townsend greatly enlarges our comprehension of early black theology and leadership and the intertwined racial dilemmas of African American and white American clerics.

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