HISTORY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION. JANUARY 20TH, 1788, TO JULY 1ST, 1888. INCLUDING THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, ADDRESSES, SERMONS, ETC.
Savannah, Ga. The Morning News Print. 1888. [20], 360 pp. Frontis illustration of the First African Baptist Church, and another full-page illustration preceding the table of Contents. Well-used with contemporary ownership signatures of "Mr. Cornelious Adams, 1819 Reynolds." Inner hinges cracked and some loosening from binding, scattered foxing. Text portraits of the pastors. In original cloth binding, some spotting and extremity wear. Gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover. Good.
"The oldest colored Baptist church in America," it was organized in January 1788 at "Brampton's barn, three miles west of Savannah, by Rev. Abraham Marshall (white) and Jesse Peter (colored)." Its trials, triumphs, schisms, relations with their Caucasian co-religionists, and biographies of its ministers are chronicled here by the Church's black Pastor, Reverend Love.
FIRST EDITION. De Renne 868. Work 405. LCP Supp. 1320. Not in Blockson. Item #40926
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