History of the first African Baptist Church
Subtitle: from its organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888, including the centennial celebration, addresses, sermons, etc
By: Love, E.K. (Emanuel King), 1850-1900
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: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; African American churches; African American Baptists; African Americans; Religion; Church history; First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Love, the pastor of the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, writes this history to argue his Church's claim to be the "first African-American Baptist Church in North America." He gives a detailed report of the rise of the Church under Andrew Bryan before the split of 1832, when a majority of the members followed Andrew C. Marshall to form a new church in Franklin Square in Savannah, retaining the old name. He provides biographies of the pastors and important leaders of the new congregation, including his own administration, and concludes by giving the documents, addresses and sermons surrounding the first centennial celebration, which included the adjudication of the dispute between the two churches.
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Transcribed from: History of the first African Baptist Church, from its organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888, including the centennial celebration, addresses, sermons, etc. / by Rev. E.K. Love, D.D. Savannah, Ga. : The Morning News Print, 1888. [13], v, 360 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

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