Religious bodies, 1906
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: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Religion; African American churches; Statistics; History; Church statistics; Ecclesiastical geography; Christian sects
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Excerpts from a text published by the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1906 on religious bodies which focuses on churches wholly or in part composed of black communicants. Part one consists of a summary and general tables, part two lists the history, description and statistics of separate denominations. Among the statistics compiled for each church include the number of members, the proportion of men and women, church edifices, Sunday schools, and the value of the church property and its indebtedness. It reports on 17 Christian sects wholly African-American and 26 church bodies African-American in part and is primarily interested in recording changes in the statistics since the census of 1890.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: Religious bodies, 1906 / Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1910. "Special reports."

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Table of contents: title: Part I. Summary of statistics of colored organizations (p. 136-146); title: Part II. Separate Denominations: History, description, and statistics: National Baptist Convention (Colored) (p. 91-111); title: Colored Primitive Baptists (p. 151-155); title: United American Freewill Baptists (Colored) (p. 158-160); title: Church of God and Saints of Christ (Colored) (p. 201-203); title: Churches of the Living God (Colored) (p. 207-211); title: Voluntary Missionary Society in America (Colored) (p. 292); title: Free Christian Zion Church of Christ (Colored) (p. 293); title: Union American Methodist Episcopal Church (Colored) (p. 444-446); title: African Methodist Episcopal Church (p. 446-453); title: African Union Methodist Protestant Church (p. 453-455); title: African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (p. 455-460); title: Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (p. 479-483); title: Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church (Colored) (p. 483-484); title: Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church (Colored) (p. 492-493).