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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
Hope for freedom was deeply rooted in slavery and Afro-Christianity. In the twilight of the Civil War and general emancipation black churches invoked that hope. African Methodist Episcopal (AME), Baptist, and other preachers “proclaimed a new Gospel of Freedom.” For example, AME bishop Daniel A. Payne said that freedmen and -women must embrace Christian character, education, self-help, and racial solidarity to cope with the injuries of slavery and raise their voices for justice.
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