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Tables of Contents for In the Company of Black Men
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Acknowledgments
ix
 
``Some Little Tribute'': An Introduction
1
8
I African Voluntary Associations and The Rise of Black Spiritual Culture
A Taunt from the Oppressed: The West African Institutional Legacy in New York City, 1644-1783
9
27
Raising Mother Zion: The Fusion of African and British Institutions in New York, 1784-1822
36
18
The Liberating Power of the Cross: The NYAS and the African Encounter with the Protestant Ethic, 1774-1796
54
19
``The Aristocracy of Character'': African Societies and the Moral Consequence of Nationalism, 1784-1845
73
28
II African Voluntary Associations and the Making of the Public Sphere
``The Inmates of My Sanctum Sanctorum'': African Voluntary Associations and the Public Sphere, 1808-1845
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19
In the Company of Black Men: Manhood and Obligation in the African Confraternity, 1808-1857
120
22
``A Single Voice'': African Societies, the Press and the Public Sphere, 1827-1861
142
12
When Black Men Spoke of Freedom: Voluntary Associations and Nationalist Culture, 1809-1865
154
27
III The Transformation of African American Voluntarism
``The Gaudy Carnival'': The African Declension in the NYASMR, 1863-1945
181
17
``Shall It Be a Woman?'': The Transformation of Black Men's Voluntarism, 1865-1960
198
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Notes
219
66
Bibliography
285
26
Index
311
22
About the Author
333