| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Larry Eugene Rivers and Canter Brown, Jr. Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865–1895. (The History of African-American Religions.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2001. Pp. xx, 244. $34.95.

Larry Eugene Rivers and Canter Brown, Jr., have responded to the challenge of providing a close examination of African-American churches during the second half of the nineteenth century, a highly critical period of adjustment from slavery to freedom. They lay out the framework of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Florida from its founding in 1865 to 1895. The latter year seems less directly pertinent to the AME Church than the first. In May 1865, AME officials dispatched the first denominational missionaries into Florida. But the authors chose to end their book in 1895 because of several occurrences, including Frederick Douglass's death, Booker T. Washington's famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech, and devastating freezes in Florida that altered political, social, and economic circumstances for African Americans. This book is the first in a new series called "The History of African-American Religions," edited by Stephen W. Angell and Anthony Pinn. The editors intend to "further historical investigations into the varieties of African-American religions and to encourage the development of new and expanded paradigms, methodologies, and themes" (p. xi) in the history of African-American religious experiences. . . .

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