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Richard J. Boles

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I am an Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University (PhD from George Washington University and BA and MA from Boston College). I specialize in early American history, particularly African American and Native American history from the colonial era to the Civil War, and American religious history. Before moving to Oklahoma, I lived in California, Massachusetts, Washington DC, and New York. My first book focuses on race relations in northern Protestant churches from 1730 to 1850. This work examines the transition from racially diverse churches during the early eighteenth century to separate American Indian and African American congregations by the early nineteenth century in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions. It shows th ...more

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“Changing attitudes about race in churches after 1820 halted and then reversed the expansion of interracial churches that had coexisted alongside separate black churches and, as a result, churches were on the frontline of creating and supporting segregation in antebellum northern society.”
Richard J. Boles, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North

“Thousands of African Americans and hundreds of American Indians publicly participated in and affiliated with predominantly white churches in New England and Mid-Atlantic regions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The history of these churches and our perspective on them, however, have been whitewashed.”
Richard J. Boles, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North

“Thousands of African Americans and hundreds of American Indians publicly participated in and affiliated with predominantly white churches in New England and Mid-Atlantic regions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The history of these churches and our perspective on them, however, have been whitewashed.”
Richard J. Boles, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North

“Changing attitudes about race in churches after 1820 halted and then reversed the expansion of interracial churches that had coexisted alongside separate black churches and, as a result, churches were on the frontline of creating and supporting segregation in antebellum northern society.”
Richard J. Boles, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North

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