In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City Book

	"Some little tribute" : an introduction	1
I	African voluntary associations and the rise of black spiritual culture
1	A taunt from the oppressed : the West African institutional legacy in New York City, 1644-1783	9
2	Raising Mother Zion : the fusion of African and British institutions in New York, 1784-1822	36
3	The liberating power of the cross : the NYAS and the African encounter with the Protestant ethic, 1774-1796	54
4	"The aristocracy of character" : African societies and the moral consequence of nationalism, 1784-1845	73
II	African voluntary associations and the making of the public sphere
5	"The inmates of my sanctum sanctorum" : African voluntary associations and the public sphere, 1808-1845	101
6	In the company of black men : manhood and obligation in the African confraternity, 1808-1857	120
7	"A single voice" : African societies, the press, and the public sphere, 1827-1861	142
8	When black men spoke of freedom : voluntary associations and nationalist culture, 1809-1865	154
III	The transformation of African American voluntarism
9	"The gaudy carnival" : the African declension in the NYASMR, 1863-1945	181
10	"Shall it be a woman?" : the transformation of black men's voluntarism, 1865-1960	198