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OLDFIELD, J. R., Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) and the Creation of an African-American Church in Liberia, Lewiston, N.Y., The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 180 pp., $ 49.95, 0-88946-074-4

OLDFIELD, J. R., Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) and the Creation of an African-American Church in... 184 Reviews OLDFIELD, J. R., Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) and the Creation of an African-American Church in Liberia, Lewiston, N.Y., The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 180 pp., $ 49.95, 0-88946-074-4. This study goes a long way towards reinstating a neglected yet highly significant nineteenth-century black intellectual and leader. Alexander Crummell has never attracted the degree of scholarly or popular attention paid to his more famous and more flamboyant contemporary, Edward Blyden. Yet, as this study clearly shows, Crummell was as much a pioneer as Blyden in the establishment of a tradition of black scholarship, and his vision of a racial renais- sance through which blacks would discover their unique destiny influenced and inspired later generations of American and African negro leaders. Divided into eight fairly brief chapters, with an excellent set of detailed notes appended to each chapter, the book surveys most succinctly Crummell's long and turbulent career. In dealing with his early adult life it contrasts the frustrations and tensions of a gifted black clergyman nurtured in the abolitionist movement yet buffeted by the inequalities of Jacksonian America with the exhilaration and sense of emotional and mental freedom that Crummell felt as a student at the University of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

OLDFIELD, J. R., Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) and the Creation of an African-American Church in Liberia, Lewiston, N.Y., The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 180 pp., $ 49.95, 0-88946-074-4

Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 21 (2): 184 – Jan 1, 1991

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Brill
Copyright
© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4200
eISSN
1570-0666
DOI
10.1163/157006691X00357
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184 Reviews OLDFIELD, J. R., Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) and the Creation of an African-American Church in Liberia, Lewiston, N.Y., The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 180 pp., $ 49.95, 0-88946-074-4. This study goes a long way towards reinstating a neglected yet highly significant nineteenth-century black intellectual and leader. Alexander Crummell has never attracted the degree of scholarly or popular attention paid to his more famous and more flamboyant contemporary, Edward Blyden. Yet, as this study clearly shows, Crummell was as much a pioneer as Blyden in the establishment of a tradition of black scholarship, and his vision of a racial renais- sance through which blacks would discover their unique destiny influenced and inspired later generations of American and African negro leaders. Divided into eight fairly brief chapters, with an excellent set of detailed notes appended to each chapter, the book surveys most succinctly Crummell's long and turbulent career. In dealing with his early adult life it contrasts the frustrations and tensions of a gifted black clergyman nurtured in the abolitionist movement yet buffeted by the inequalities of Jacksonian America with the exhilaration and sense of emotional and mental freedom that Crummell felt as a student at the University of

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Published: Jan 1, 1991

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