Reconstruction’s Revival
Reconstruction’s Revival
The Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the Roots of Black Populist Diplomacy
This chapter explores how missionary work that began as evangelical outreach developed into a system of shared grievances when African Americans began to see the meaningful parallels and symmetries between their own limited political influence in the Reconstruction South and African communities affected by colonialism. Drawing on the minutes of the annual meeting and publication records of the Mission Herald, the National Baptist Convention's monthly newsletter, the chapter traces African American engagement with Africa in the late nineteenth century through the transformation of a historically decentralized religious denomination into a collective space for civic mobilization, shaped by diasporic identification and linked social circumstances.
Keywords: African American missionaries, missionary work, evangelical outreach, colonialism, Reconstruction South, National Baptist Convention, Africa
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