| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood. By Sandy Dwayne Martin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xxiv, 248 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-261-0.)

Following emancipation, churches played a key role in African Americans' adjustment from slavery to freedom. No other institution had as great an impact on the religious, social, and political lives of black southerners. Recently, historians have cast considerable light on African American churches. Most have focused broadly on the South, although some have spotlighted local churches. Consequently, the outlines of African American church history in the late nineteenth century stand out distinctly. The details about the interplay of culture, class, and religious ideology in church building, however, remain obscure. Professor Sandy Dwayne Martin proposes to illuminate them through a biography of James Walker Hood, a minister and bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church. . . .

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