{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61168564926b7100124612a7/62978f92812a92001393862e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Black Indians and Freedmen","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61168564926b7100124612a7/1654099338068-9d92bc93a9c38cb6236e53351002285f.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) is one of the most important African American Churches in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Christina Dickerson-Cousin shares how the AME worked in Indian Territory. The story is one of shared issues and common interests that helps add nuance to our understanding of the period.</p><p><br></p><p><u>Essential Reading</u>:</p><p><a href=\"https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=96mcn9ay9780252044212\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Dickerson-Cousin, <em>Black Indians &amp; Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916 </em>(2021).</a></p>","author_name":"Michael Patrick Cullinane"}