The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian history, 1868-1967

After her conversion to Christianity and baptism at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October ev...

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Subtitles:The Reverend Jennie Johnson & African Canadian
Main Author: Reid-Maroney, Nina (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2013.
In:Year: 2013
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Johnson, Jennie 1868-1967 / Canada / USA / Methodism / Civil rights / History 1880-1960
Further subjects:B Civil rights movements North America History 20th century
B Women clergy North America Biography
B Civil rights Religious aspects Christianity
B Johnson, Jennie, 1868-1967
B Civil rights movements (North America) History 20th century
B Civil rights movements ; North America ; History ; 20th century
B Civil rights ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
B Baptists, Black ; North America ; Clergy ; Biography
B Women clergy ; North America ; Biography
B Women clergy North America Biography
B Civil Rights Religious aspects Christianity
B Baptists, Black North America Clergy Biography
B Baptists, Black (North America) Clergy Biography
B Baptists, Black Clergy North America Biography
B Johnson, Jennie
B Biography
B Civil rights movements North America History, 20th century
B Johnson, Jennie ; 1868-1967
B Johnson, Jennie (1868-1967)
B Women clergy (North America) Biography
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Summary:After her conversion to Christianity and baptism at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, Michigan, and was received into ordained ministry. She was the first ordained woman to serve in Canada, and spent her life building churches and working for racial justice on both sides of the national border. In this first extended study of Jennie Johnson's fascinating and understudied life, Nina Reid-Maroney reconstructs Johnson's nearly one-hundred-year story -- from her upbringing in a slave refugee settlement in nineteenth-century Canada to her work as an activist and Christian minister in the modern civil rights movement. This critical biography of a figure who outstripped the racial and religious barriers of her time offers a unique and powerful view of the struggle for freedom in North America. Nina Reid-Maroney is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Huron University College at Western (London, Ontario) and the coeditor of "The Promised Land: History and Historiography of Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements".
Introduction -- "In their adopted land" : Johnson's family in Canada -- "As lively stones" : abolitionist culture in Johnson's Dresden -- A resurrection story : conversion and calling -- Wilberforce University -- Ordination -- Flint -- "God forbid that I should glory" : Johnson and history
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ISBN:1580467962