Payne Theological Seminary has a helpful guide to beginning research on the southern A.M.E. church.

Historian Dr. David Rotenstein wrote a series of blog posts about the history and destruction of Antioch A.M.E. church in Decatur, Georgia, in 2014. (The church moved to Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1996.)

• http://blog.historian4hire.net/2014/01/29/antiochs-eyes/
• http://blog.historian4hire.net/tag/antioch-ame-church/

Selected sources on the history of the A.M.E. Church and African American religion

• Angell, Stephen W. and Anthony B. Pinn. Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1862-1939. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
• Bailey, Julius H. Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005.
• Campbell, James T. Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa, rev. ed. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998.
• Harvey, Paul. Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.
• Harvey, Paul. Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2012.
• Little, Lawrence S. Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
• Montgomery, William. Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1993.
• Payne, Daniel Alexander. History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Nashville: Publishing House of the A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1891. Read in full via the UNC Documenting the American South digital collection.
• Raboteau, Albert J. Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Walker, Clarence. A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1982.