Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the U.S. at Heidelberg University. He has written books and essays on a range of topics in the fields of American religious history and American literature, including Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (2016). Caitlin B. Smith is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature at St. Bonaventure University. She has published multiple journal articles on nineteenth-century American literature and religion, with a special focus on early freethinking societies and constructions of doubt.Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own and We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University.

• Table of Contents Acknowledgements A Chronology of James W.C. Pennington's LifeIntroduction Section 1: Pennington's Autobiography and Writings on His Life1.1 The Fugitive Blacksmith1.2 Frederick Douglass on Pennington 1.3 The Story of Pennington's Brother and Nephews 1.4 A Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe1.5 Petition for Pennington's Honorary Doctor of Divinity to Heidelberg's Faculty of Theology Section 2: African American History and Destiny; Black Education and Excellence2.1 A Text Book of the Origin and History of the Colored People2.2 The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade2.3. The Destiny of Black People in the United States2.4 <"The Self-Redeeming Power of the Colored Races of the World> "2.5 <"The Great Conflict Requires Great Faith> "2.6. Letters on Black Education and the Colored Convention Movement2.7. On Black Female Excellence Section 3: Philosophy and Theology3.1 Covenantal Theology, Christian Republicanism, and the Divine Right of Resistance3.2 The Bible Against Slavery3.3 Racial Prejudice and Segregation in the Church3.4 The Government of God over Nations3.5 Christian Zeal3.6. Ecclesial Conflicts over Slavery3.7 African Missions Section 4: Abolitionism, the Politics of Resistance, and the Civil War4.1 Celebrating British West Indian Emancipation4.2 Fighting African Colonization4.3 Protesting the Fugitive Slave Law4.4 The Campaign against Segregation in New York City Public Transportation4.5 Pacifism and the Hope for Divine Justice4.6 Praying for John Brown4.7 The Moral Meaning of the Civil War4.8 A Call for Black Enlistment4.9. The Right to Black Self-Defense4.10. Observing Early Reconstruction in Mississippi BibliographyIndex

Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the U.S. at Heidelberg University. He has written books and essays on a range of topics in the fields of American religious history and American literature, including Prophecy, Piety, and the Problem of Historicity: Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (2016). Caitlin B. Smith is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature at St. Bonaventure University. She has published multiple journal articles on nineteenth-century American literature and religion, with a special focus on early freethinking societies and constructions of doubt.Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own and We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University.

• Table of Contents Acknowledgements A Chronology of James W.C. Pennington's LifeIntroduction Section 1: Pennington's Autobiography and Writings on His Life1.1 The Fugitive Blacksmith1.2 Frederick Douglass on Pennington 1.3 The Story of Pennington's Brother and Nephews 1.4 A Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe1.5 Petition for Pennington's Honorary Doctor of Divinity to Heidelberg's Faculty of Theology Section 2: African American History and Destiny; Black Education and Excellence2.1 A Text Book of the Origin and History of the Colored People2.2 The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade2.3. The Destiny of Black People in the United States2.4 <"The Self-Redeeming Power of the Colored Races of the World> "2.5 <"The Great Conflict Requires Great Faith> "2.6. Letters on Black Education and the Colored Convention Movement2.7. On Black Female Excellence Section 3: Philosophy and Theology3.1 Covenantal Theology, Christian Republicanism, and the Divine Right of Resistance3.2 The Bible Against Slavery3.3 Racial Prejudice and Segregation in the Church3.4 The Government of God over Nations3.5 Christian Zeal3.6. Ecclesial Conflicts over Slavery3.7 African Missions Section 4: Abolitionism, the Politics of Resistance, and the Civil War4.1 Celebrating British West Indian Emancipation4.2 Fighting African Colonization4.3 Protesting the Fugitive Slave Law4.4 The Campaign against Segregation in New York City Public Transportation4.5 Pacifism and the Hope for Divine Justice4.6 Praying for John Brown4.7 The Moral Meaning of the Civil War4.8 A Call for Black Enlistment4.9. The Right to Black Self-Defense4.10. Observing Early Reconstruction in Mississippi BibliographyIndex