James Morris Webb

The Black Man, the Father of Civilization, Proven by Biblical History (Annotated) James Morris Webb

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-James Morris Webb, born in 1878 in Tennessee and died in 1940, is an American reverend. He delivered a speech in 1921, predicting that a charismatic leader would be proclaimed king of a great African power and would also be the incarnation of the African God. In 1930, Tafari Makonnen was crowned king of Ethiopia (under the name of Hailé Sélassié I er), so this speech became for some a prophecy that is at the origin of the Rastafari movement. In 1924, Marcus Garvey, a black leader, takes up a prayer from Webb's speech ("Look towards Africa, where a black king will be crowned, who will lead blacks to their rescue"). That is why this discourse and this role of prophet are often mistakenly attributed to him. James Morris Webb was a Christian preacher from the United States who was active around 1910-1930, associated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The African Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as the "AME Church", is a Christian church founded in 1816. It originated from a group of African Americans from Philadelphia, who separated in 1787 from the Saint George Methodist Episcopal Church, because of racial discrimination and built the Bethel African Methodist Church. In 1799, Richard Allen became pastor of Bethel and in 1816 he was consecrated as bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.