PDF Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice by Judith E. Walsh in History

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A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance; African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century; had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church; filling positions of authority as class leaders; exhorters; and preachers. Through the first half of the nineteenth century; African Americans used the resources of the church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in the secular culture.