Sandy D. Martin.

Theventseal beery can be deally dull faut Martins a lively and exception ally clear puede dots of church politics. By examining the devel сертите се пони among black Baption bander the Ovil War, Martin opems a wowww the organization of black met that wew of cotical importance or block spot and religionie He poi phantly pomass the ese of cultural ambivalence that engelled Afro-Americans on the one hand to codeon Ancan lapons in the same tems that white Americans diet, while on the other hand moving then to aderaty racially with Alcans as part of a providencial design for the redemption of Alnca and potentially of all homan Lund Martin angues that Alio-American mesonanes, despite their tekings of cul tural superionty to Alicam, explicaly denied Euro-American stereotypes of black interionty and implicitly worked toward Alrican equality and independence by pmaching a practical Chemtunity that vncluded education and material lan well as spiritual development for Afscan peoples.