Christian reconstruction : the American Missionary Association and southern Blacks, 1861-1890 /
Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[©2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; 1. A Grand Field for Missionary Labor; 2. Wartime Expansion; 3. AMA Common Schools After the War; 4. Freedmen's Relief; 5. Friends and Allies; 6. Administration and Fund Collecting; 7. Public Schools and Teacher Training; 8. The AMA Colleges; 9. The AMA and the Black Church; 10. Yankee Schoolteachers; 11. Black Teachers and Missionaries; 12. The AMA and the White Community; 13. The AMA and the Black Community; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.