Informative and controversial, this book explores the issue of domesticity in the 19th-century African Methodist Episcopal Church. For many in the church, their power to shape the dynamics of the family was the key to strengthening the spirit and role of African-Americans following the Civil War. In the midst of a hostile racial and political climate, black ministers and their congregations embraced Victorian notions of domesticity as a stabilizing force.Julius H. Bailey shows that they used the ideology to overcome regional tensions, restore families torn apart during slavery, challenge the...
Informative and controversial, this book explores the issue of domesticity in the 19th-century African Methodist Episcopal Church. For many in the chu...
