| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884–1916. By Lawrence S. Little. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. xviii, 246 pp. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-085-6.)

Lawrence S. Little's Disciples of Liberty examines the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church's turbulent interactions with Western imperialism, from the European powers' 1884 partitioning of Africa to the 1916 United States invasion of Haiti. Drawing upon published AME conference proceedings, writings of contemporary AME leaders, and relevant secondary materials, Little offers a clearly argued and worthwhile contribution to the growing literature on African Americans' long-standing but underappreciated involvement in international relations. 1

The first several chapters discuss the basic political ideology of the church, AME responses to the era's racial constructs, and black theological ideas about global redemption, all of which helped shape the church's international agenda. Little's central chapters assess AME efforts to influence United States foreign policy while fighting racial injustice at home. Never fully unified among themselves, AME leaders were cosmopolitan and often contentious members of a black elite who used the church as a platform for pursuing their broadly shared objectives of universal liberty and self-determination. . . .

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