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By offering these and innumerable other examples, the author almost effortlessly integrates the history of African Methodism into the broader historical trajectory of African American and US history writ large. In this superbly written and rigorously researched book, historian Dennis C. Dickerson chronicles the rise and evolution of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church as a veritable crossroads of major social movements within the African diaspora for more than two centuries. Echoing Du Boisian notions of double consciousness, the author explores the various ways in which African Methodism has struggled to build its own discrete institutional mandate while also sustaining its definitive liberationist identity since its establishment by Richard Allen. [Extracted from the article]