Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915), African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church bishop and emigrationist

Angell, Stephen W.

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“…who, despite the machinations of the wicked, never fails to vindicate the cause of Justice, and the sanctity of His own handiwork'. 40 While some of his compatriots focused on racial uplift, Turner, more and more disillusioned as he witnessed the end of Reconstruction and the 'redemption' that followed, turned his sights to Africa, which he saw as the best hope for creating a just earth that paralleled the justice of heaven. On a trip to Liberia in 1891, he noted that Africa was 'the world's future paradise'.…”

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‘The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the Afterlife, 1863–1901

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2010

Slavery & Abolition

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Belief in the afterlife was of central importance to slave converts, who ascribed doublemeanings to heaven and hell, as places to which the dead would go, and as metaphors for freedom and slavery. After the war, the continued prominence of the afterlife in exslave religion found vocal critics among the black intellectual elite, who saw it as a vestige of the past. Yet many black intellectuals were believers too, and developed their own visions of a progressive and redemptive hereafter. This article argues that, despite class, educational, and religious differences, which translated into contrasting visions of the afterlife among ex-slaves and black intellectuals (material vs. mental, physical vs. abstract), African Americans in all walks of life took a doctrine that could encourage ignoring the inequalities of the present in anticipation of a better life after death, and turned it into a central tenet of an activist faith in an era of hope and disillusionment.

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‘The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the Afterlife, 1863–1901

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Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915), African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church bishop and emigrationist

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‘The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the Afterlife, 1863–1901

‘The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the Afterlife, 1863–1901

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