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Index A.M.E. Church, 2, 3, 25, 26, 27, 43, 50, 51, 53 abolitionists, 17, 46 African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant, 51 Allen, Richard, 14, 50, 51 American Colonization Society, 4, 18 Bascom, Henry, 18 Bethel Tabernacle church, 25, 26, 27 Bethel Baptist Church, 27, 28, 32 Bethseda Baptist Church, 27 Big Bethel Church, 25, 26, 27 Boycott communion, 24 Brown, Joseph E., 29, 30, 31 Campbell, William J., 36, 45 collapse of slaveholding, 2, 29 Colony of Georgia, 12 color-conscious differentiation, 35, 36 Confederacy, 9, 25, 36 Covington, 27, 28, 30 Emancipation Proclamation, 2, 29, 41 Episcopalians, 17 First African Baptist Church, 3, 14, 36, 45 Fleetwood, Bishop William, 13 Frazier, Garrison, 46, 47, 48 Forty Acres and a Mule, 7 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, 17 George, David, 14, 42, 51 Georgia, 3, 9, 10, 12, 27, 28, 29, 30, 42 Georgia Military Institute, 9 Gibson, Bishop Edmund, 13 Gillfield Baptist Church, 3, 14 Haitian Revolution, 35 Hammond, James, 17 Hegel, George Freidrich, 13 Houston, Ulysses L., 36, 41, 48 Hume, John, 13 Independent Black Church Movement, 2, 42, 51, 53 invisible institutions, 19, 50 Liele, George, 14, 42, 51 Lincoln, Abraham, 7, 25, 41, 42, 46, 48 Lynch, James, 26, 27, 47 Marietta, Georgia, 9, 22, 25 Milledgeville, 30, 31 Mother Bethel Methodist Church, 14 Mother Dicey, 22 Mulattos, 29, 35, 36 nominal slaves, 36 Payne, Bishop Daniel A., 51, 52, 53 58 DOI: 10.1057/9781137405180.0012
Index 59 peculiar institution, 17, 23 Plantation Missions, 19, 20 Pope Nicholas V, 12 Quakers, 17 religion with letters, 13, 19 religion without letters, 19 reparations, 26, See also Special Field Order 15 Revolutionary War, 17, 42 Roman Catholics, 17 Rucker, Ephraim, 23, 24, 25 Savannah, 2, 3, 6, 14, 27, 28, 29, 36, 37, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48, 51, 53 segration and integration, 22 Sherman, William, 2, 6, 7, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 50 Silver Bluff Church, 14 Simms, James, 41 slave revolts, 18, 38 slave ships holy names, 12 Slave Trade rationale, 12 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 14 Southern propaganda, 9, 31 Special Field Order 15, 47, 48 Spencer, Peter, 50, 51 Stanton, Edwin, 45, 46, 47 Thornwell, James Henley, 18 total war, 29 Turner, Bishop Henry McNeal, 5 Turner, Henry McNeal, 53 twenty religious leaders, 6 Union American Methodist Episcopal Church, 51 Walker, David, 18, 19 Watch Night Service, 41 White supremacy, 4, 13, 35 Woods, Joseph, 27 Woodson, Carter G., 13 Zion Baptist Church, 22, 25 DOI: 10.1057/9781137405180.0012