African Americans in Williamsburg & Greenpoint used faith-based leadership to overcome industrialists & others who opposed abolition of slavery.

African Americans in Williamsburg & Greenpoint used faith-based leadership to overcome industrialists & others who opposed abolition of slavery.

Evangelical abolitionists in Williamsburg & Greenpoint

 

Dwight Moody on opening night at the Clermont Rink. Source: New York Public Library Photo Collection.

Dwight Moody on opening night at the Clermont Rink. Source: New York Public Library Photo Collection.

Evangelicals when Williamsburg turned into a city, Greenpoint into a town and both into Brooklyn

 

Memorial Day: American and Dominican flags flying over a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with a church steeple in the distance.

Photo: Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions

Memorial Day at a Dominican neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

 

Islamic woman tells Christian Indonesians that they should get our of her village. The religious rhetoric arose during a property dispute. Photo: A Journey through NYC religions

Islamic woman tells Christian Indonesians that they should get our of her village. The religious rhetoric arose during a property dispute. Photo: A Journey through NYC religions

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From the Diary of our first foreign correspondent: How sympathetic objectivity helped me in Indonesia

 

Anthony Bradley

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