Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of
the American Revolution, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME)
Church emerged in the nineteenth century as the preeminent black
institution in the United States. In 1896, the church opened
mission work in South Africa, absorbing an independent
""Ethiopian"" church founded by dissident African Christians a few
years earlier. In the process, the church helped ignite one of the
most influential popular movements in South African history. Songs
of Zion examines this remarkable historical convergence from both
sides of the Atlantic. James Campbell charts the origins and
evolution of black American independent churches, arguing that the
very act of becoming Christian forced African Americans to reflect
on their relationship to their ancestral continent. He then turns
to South Africa, exploring the AME Church's entrance and evolution
in a series of specific South African contexts. Throughout the
book, Campbell focuses on the comparisons that Africans and African
Americans themselves drew between their situations. Their
transatlantic encounter, he argues, enabled both groups to
understand and act upon their worlds in new ways. |Discusses the
interaction between the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the
United States and in South Africa, arguing that each group
influenced the other to understand and act on their worlds in new
ways.
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