Books by Du Bois

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade  (1896)  / The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899)  / The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903)  /  John Brown.(1909)  / The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)  /  Darkwater: Voices Within the Veil (1920)  Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (1924)  / Dark Princess: A Romance (1928)  / Black Reconstruction in America (1935) / Black Folk, Then and Now (1939)

Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945)  / The World and Africa: An Inquiry (1947)  / In Battle for Peace (1952) /

A Trilogy: The Ordeal of Monsart (1957) Monsart Builds a School (1959) nd Worlds of Color (1961) / An ABC of Color: Selections (1963)

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968)

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Shirley Graham Du Bois, His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of W.E. B. Du Bois (1971)

Leslie Alexander Lacy. The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: Cheer the Lonesome Traveler (1970)

Du Bois on Reform: Periodical-based Leadership for African Americans. Edited and Introduced by Brian Johnson. New York Altamira Press (A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 2005

A Du Bois Bibliography

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THE NEGRO CHURCH

Edited by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Corresponding Secretary of the Conference

The Atlanta University Press Atlanta, Ga. 1903

The Negro Church is the only social institution of the Negroes which started in the African forest and survived slavery; under the leadership of priest or medicine man, afterward of the Christian pastor, the Church preserved in itself the remnants of African tribal life and became after emancipation the center of Negro social life. So that today the Negro population of the United States is virtually divided into church congregations which are the real units of race life.

CONTENTS

PREFACE . . . . .v

BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . .vi

1. Primitive Negro Religion . . . . .1

2. Effect of Transplanting . . . . 2.

3. The Obeah Sorcery . . . . . 5

4. Slavery and Christianity . . . . .6

5. Early Restrictions . . . . . 10

6. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel . . . . .12

7. The Moravians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians . . . . .15

8. The Sects and Slavery . . . . . 20

9. Toussaint L'Ouverture and Nat Turner . . . . .22

10. Third Period of Missionary Enterprise . . . . . 26

11. The Earlier Churches and Preachers. (By Mr. John W. Cromwell) . . . . .30

12. Some Other Ante-Bellum Preachers . . . . .35

13. The Negro Church in 1890 . . . . . 37

14. Local Studies, 1902-3 . . . . .49

15. A Black Belt County, Georgia. (By the Rev. W. H. Holloway) . . . . . 57

16. A Town in Florida. (By Annie Marion MacLean, Ph. D.) . . . . . 64

17. A Southern City . . . . .69

18. Virginia . . . . . 80

19. The Middle West, Illinois. (By Monroe N. Work, A. M., and the Editor) . . . . .83

20. The Middle West, Ohio. (By R. R. Wright, Jr.) . . . . . 92

21. An Eastern City . . . . . 108

22. Present Condition of Churches--The Baptists . . . . . 111

23. The African Methodists . . . . .123

25. The Zion Methodists . . . . . 131

26. The Colored Methodists . . . . . 133

27. The Methodists . . . . . 134

28. The Episcopalians . . . . . 138

29. The Presbyterians . . . . . 142

30. The Congregationalists . . . . .147

31. Summary of Negro Churches, 1900-1903 . . . . . 153

32. Negro Laymen and the Church . . . . . 154

33. Southern Whites and the Negro Church . . . . .164

34. The Moral Status of Negroes . . . . . 176

35. Children and the Church . . . . . 185

36. The Training of Ministers . . . . . 190

37. Some Notable Preachers . . . . . 202

38. The Eighth Atlanta Conference . . . . .202

39. Remarks of Dr. Washington Gladden . . . . .204

40. Resolutions . . . . . 207

Index . . . . . 209

PREFACE

A study of human life to-day involves a consideration of conditions of physical life, a study of various social organizations, beginning with the home, and investigations into occupations, education, religion and morality, crime and political activity. The Atlanta Cycle of studies into the Negro problem aims at exhaustive and periodic studies of all these subjects so far as they relate to the American Negro. Thus far, in the first eight years of the ten-year cycle, we have studied physical conditions of life (Reports No. 1 and No. 2), social organization (Reports No. 2 and No. 3), economic activity (Reports No. 4 and No. 7), and Education (Reports No. 5 and No. 6). This year we take up the important subject of the NEGRO CHURCH, studying the religion of Negroes and its influence on their moral habits.

Such a study could not be made exhaustive for lack of funds and organization. On the other hand, the United States government and the churches themselves have published a great deal of material and it is possible from this and limited investigations in various typical localities to make a study of some value.

This investigation bases its results on the following data:

United States Census of 1890.

Minutes of Conferences.

Reports of Conventions, Societies, etc.

Catalogues of Theological Schools.

Two hundred and fifty special reports from pastors and officials.

One hundred and seventy-five special reports from colored laymen.

One hundred and seventeen special reports from heads of schools and prominent men, white and colored.

Fifty-four special reports from Southern white persons.

Thirteen special reports from Colored Theological Schools.

One hundred and nine special reports from Northern Theological Schools.

Answers from 1,300 school children.

Local studies in--

Richmond, Virginia. . . . . . Atlanta, Georgia.

Chicago, Illinois. . . . . . Greene County, Ohio.

Thomas County, Georgia. . . . . . Deland, Florida.

General and periodical literature.

In the preparation of this report the editor begs to acknowledge his indebtedness to the several hundred persons who have so kindly answered his inquiries; to students in Atlanta University and Virginia Union University, who have made special investigations; and particularly to Professor B. F. Williams, Mr. M. N. Work, Mr. R. R. Wright, Jr., and Mr. W. H. Holloway, all of whom have given valuable time and services to this work.

The Rev. F. J. Grimke has kindly allowed the use of his unpublished report, made to the Hampton Conference in 1901; Mr. J. W. Cromwell has loaned us the results of his historical researches, and Dr. A. M. MacLean has given us the results of a valuable local study. The proof-reading was largely done by Mr. A. G. Dill.

Atlanta University has been conducting studies similar to this for the past seven years. The results, distributed at a nominal sum, have been widely used.

Notwithstanding this success the social problems that has ever faced the Nation, for substantial aid and encouragement in the further prosecution of these important studies is greatly hampered by the lack of funds. With meagre appropriations for expenses, lack of clerical help and necessary apparatus, the Conference cannot cope properly with the vast field of work before it.

We appeal therefore to those who think it worth while to study this, the greatest group of  further prosecution of the work of the Atlanta Conference.

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