African Americans -- Religion
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Amos Gerry Beman Scrapbooks
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 105
Abstract:
The scrapbooks provide evidence of the personal and professional life of Amos Gerry Beman, pastor and social activist, between 1830 and 1858. The scrapbooks contain writings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera by and about Beman. Scrapboks I and II consist of clippings of Beman's letters to the editor and articles by Beman, in addition to newspaper clippings of articles, poetry, and other clippings of interest to Beman. Scrapbook III contains letters of...
Dates:
1830-1858
Harry Croswell Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 258
Abstract:
Diaries, family records and history of the Parish of Trinity Church, New Haven (1740-1820) by Harry Croswell, journalist and later minister of Trinity Church from 1815 until his death. The diaries in 14 volumes (1821-1858), offer a daily record of his life in New Haven as well as accounts of his participation in the work of the church in the surrounding region and in the affairs of Trinity College, Hartford.Croswell also records the formation of the black congregation, St. Luke's, in 1844....
Dates:
1821–1858
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Harry Croswell Papers
James Lockwood Wright papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1078
Abstract:
The papers consist of eleven volumes of a journal kept by Wright from his first years at Yale College in 1828. While there he reports on a lecture by Elias Boudinot on behalf of the Cherokee nation and various temperance and abolition activities. The journals are chiefly devoted to religious meditations and describe the various revival movements of his era and his evangelical work with black residents of New Haven. He also records various aspects of his personal life including five mental...
Dates:
1828-1858
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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James Lockwood Wright papers