Craig D. Townsend is an Episcopal priest and associate rector for education at St. James' Church in New York City. He received his doctorate in the study of religion from Harvard University. Craig Townsend is Associate Rector at St. James' Church in New York City. His Ph.D. is in religion from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, where he studied with David D. Hall and William R. Hutchison.

A fascinating encounter with the dynamics of social and religious change impating African Americans in antebellum New York. -- A.J. Williams-Myers Multicultural Review Townsend's book is invaluable to any scholar... and has wide application for students of religion and race. -- Graham Russel Gao Hodges The Journal of American History I highly recommend this very useful text. -- Sandy Dwayne Martin Church History [An] important contribution to our understanding of a neglected chapter of New York City religious history. -- Kenneth A. Scherzer, H-Net Reviews Faith in Their Own Color will be of interest to all historians of the antebellum North and deserves a wide readership. -- David Brown Ecclesiastical History Faith in Their Own Color represents an incredibly detailed story of the trials and tribulations of a single black parish in antebellum New York, one historians of race and religion will surely find useful. -- John Garrison Marks New York History

• Acknowledgments 1. Improper Associates 2. Freedom's Defects 3. Hobart and the High Church 4. One of Their Own Colour 5. An Orderly and Devout Congregation 6. A Bitter Thralldom 7. A Godly Admonition 8. Peculiar Circumstances 9. The Chains That Bind 10. Promoting Improvement 11. Partaking of the Heavenly Gift 12. To Employ a Colored Clergyman 13. A State of Schism 14. A Bishop's Trials 15. Exciting the Deepest Feelings 16. Vouchsafed to All Men 17. The Heart Must Be Changed 18. The Beauties of Freedom 19. Economic Opportunity and Religious Choice 20. Attentive to Their Devotions 21. The Express Wishes of Nearly All 22. Injurious to the Cause of Religion 23. A Fulness of Assent 24. But One Fold and One Chief Shepherd Appendix. Parishioners of St. Philip's Church Notes Index

Craig D. Townsend is an Episcopal priest and associate rector for education at St. James' Church in New York City. He received his doctorate in the study of religion from Harvard University. Craig Townsend is Associate Rector at St. James' Church in New York City. His Ph.D. is in religion from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, where he studied with David D. Hall and William R. Hutchison.

A fascinating encounter with the dynamics of social and religious change impating African Americans in antebellum New York. -- A.J. Williams-Myers Multicultural Review Townsend's book is invaluable to any scholar... and has wide application for students of religion and race. -- Graham Russel Gao Hodges The Journal of American History I highly recommend this very useful text. -- Sandy Dwayne Martin Church History [An] important contribution to our understanding of a neglected chapter of New York City religious history. -- Kenneth A. Scherzer, H-Net Reviews Faith in Their Own Color will be of interest to all historians of the antebellum North and deserves a wide readership. -- David Brown Ecclesiastical History Faith in Their Own Color represents an incredibly detailed story of the trials and tribulations of a single black parish in antebellum New York, one historians of race and religion will surely find useful. -- John Garrison Marks New York History

• Acknowledgments 1. Improper Associates 2. Freedom's Defects 3. Hobart and the High Church 4. One of Their Own Colour 5. An Orderly and Devout Congregation 6. A Bitter Thralldom 7. A Godly Admonition 8. Peculiar Circumstances 9. The Chains That Bind 10. Promoting Improvement 11. Partaking of the Heavenly Gift 12. To Employ a Colored Clergyman 13. A State of Schism 14. A Bishop's Trials 15. Exciting the Deepest Feelings 16. Vouchsafed to All Men 17. The Heart Must Be Changed 18. The Beauties of Freedom 19. Economic Opportunity and Religious Choice 20. Attentive to Their Devotions 21. The Express Wishes of Nearly All 22. Injurious to the Cause of Religion 23. A Fulness of Assent 24. But One Fold and One Chief Shepherd Appendix. Parishioners of St. Philip's Church Notes Index