Introduction: Evangelical Christianity and the problem of difference -- "A grand and awful time"--Faith and hope -- Callings -- Congregation -- Conflict and community -- Conclusion: Transformations
In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. During this turbulent period, which witnessed the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferg…
Derek Chang chronicles the American Baptist Home Mission Society's efforts to evangelize among African Americans in the South and Chinese migrants on the Pacific Coast during the late nineteenth century. He brings together for the first time African American and Chinese American…