History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804 to 1914
By: by Wm. Hicks ; with a biographical introduction by Bishop W.B. Purvis
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: African American Baptists; History; Biography; Clergy; African American clergy; Church history; African Americans; Religion
Other titles: History of LA Negro Baptists and Negro Baptist beginnings in America.; History of Louisiana Negro Baptists and Negro Baptist beginnings in America.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: The history of Louisiana's black Baptists begins with Bishop Joseph Willis's entry into the state in 1804 when he and his grandson were the only Negro Baptist preachers. Later, in the years before the Civil War, Hicks argues that white preachers took over the work of the Baptists in Louisiana. After the war, the black church separated from the white church and experienced exponential growth. Hicks then shifts focus to describe the work of the Church after emancipation, the rise of the first missions in Louisiana and the establishment of the statewide Baptist Associations. In the last half of the book Hicks provides biographical sketches of prominent figures in Louisiana's Baptist Church, descriptive accounts of the Baptist schools in Louisiana, and short histories of the Baptist Church in all of the states.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804 to 1914 / by Wm. Hicks, B.A., D.D. ; with a biographical introduction by Bishop W.B. Purvis. Nashville, Tenn : National Baptist Publishing Board, [1915] 251 p. : ill. ports. ; 20 cm. Spine title: History of LA Negro Baptists and Negro Baptist beginnings in America. Cover title: History of Louisiana Negro Baptists and Negro Baptist beginnings in America.

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