The first Colored Baptist church in North America
Subtitle: constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788 : with biographical sketches of the pastors
By: written for the church by Rev. James M. Simms
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; African American churches; African American Baptists; African American clergy; Biography; African Americans; Religion; Baptists; Church history; First Bryan Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.); First Colored Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.); First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: James Simms, Georgia state legislator, pastor and church officer, writes the centennial history of the First Byran African Baptist Church in Savannah, in an effort to claim the title of first African American Baptist Church in North America away from the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Ga. Beneath the story of church quarrels is a historical record of the struggles associated with establishing, running and expanding a church for African Americans during the period from 1788 to 1888. The book reports on the Church's condition in 1888 and provides biographical sketches of its pastors.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: The first Colored Baptist church in North America : constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788 : with biographical sketches of the pastors / written for the church by Rev. James M. Simms. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1888. 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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