Description: A major figure in southern black restorationist church history
Review Quotes: "Historians of African American and Anglo American Christianity will learn tremendously from Robinson's research on the ambivalent strategies of whites who desired to convert blacks to their denomination as a means of maintaining white supremacism. Those seeking to understand southern culture and history more acutely will seize upon the nuance that springs from the volume's discussion of race and religion, with great reward. Perhaps most importantly, those who have been overzealous in reducing African American Christianity to the caricature of the prophetic vanguard will find here a disciplined, sobering study of socially conservative African American Christianity that adds considerably to our knowledge of the nation's racial and religious past."
--Journal of American Ethnic History