"One Church: Separate But Not Equal"

After the Civil War, white Episcopalians found themselves in a spiritual and ethical quandary as to what to do about freed slaves. Several issues faced them: 1) Reclaiming the masses of newly emancipated slaves who fled the church once they were declared "free;" 2) Training of black preachers whose fitness to be ministers they questioned; 3) How and if and to what extent to allow these "freedmen" to have voice in the governance of the Church--their own and the larger Church; and 4) Whether or not to create separate racial jurisdictions.