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Fifty years in the gospel ministry, from 1864 to 1914 twenty-seven years in the pastorate : sixteen years' active service as Chaplain in the U.S. Army : seven years professor in Wilberforce University : two trips to Europe : a trip to Mexico : in two parts, with appropriate illustrations

Summary: Autobiography of Theophilus G. Steward, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, including his life as an itinerant pastor in the A.M.E. Church and his experience as an army chaplain, where he recounts some of the racist incidents he encountered. The second part describes his travels through Scotland, England, France and Italy with historical and social background on the country and people and his impressions of museums, universities, churches, and other cultural highlights along the way. Steward also notes the more liberated racial climate in Europe as opposed to the United States. Finally, Steward concludes his book with a description of the Universal Races Congress in 1911.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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  • Edition: Electronic ed.
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Andrew Leiter. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Andrew Leiter, and Jill Kuhn Sexton.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.
Title from electronic title page.
Formatted Contents Note: General Conference of 1864 -- Second trip South -- Work in Charleston, S.C. -- General Conference of 1868 -- Meeting of the Philadelphia Conference -- Work at Zion Mission Church, Philadelphia -- The New Union Church, Philadelphia -- Dedication of Metropolitan Church -- Appointment as chaplain in the army -- Voyage to the Philippines -- Coming home -- Early dreams and their fulfilment -- Edinborough -- York -- London -- Paris -- Southern France -- To Italy and Rome.
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Transcribed from: Fifty years in the gospel ministry, from 1864 to 1914 : twenty-seven years in the pastorate : sixteen years' active service as Chaplain in the U.S. Army : seven years professor in Wilberforce University : two trips to Europe : a trip to Mexico : in two parts, with appropriate illustrations / by Theophilus Gould Steward ; introduction by Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom. Philadelphia, Pa. : printed by A.M.E. Book Concern, [1921?] 520 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm. Errata inserted between viii and ix and on page 520.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject: Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould) 1843-1924
United States. Army Chaplains Biography
African Methodist Episcopal Church Clergy Biography
African Methodist Episcopal Church History
African American clergy United States Biography
African American Methodists Biography
Military chaplains United States Biography
Europe Description and travel

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