The first Negro churches in the District of Columbia
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 churches; History; African American Methodists; African American Baptists; African American Catholics; African Americans; Religion; Church history
Other titles: Journal of Negro history.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: In this article from The Journal of Negro History, Cromwell offers a history of the African American churches that arose in and around Washington, D.C. during the early nineteenth century. He begins with the story of churches formed by black members dissatisfied with the treatment they received from white members of their original congregations. As he continues, he lists the important figures in the rise of each church and traces the history of their locations to their sites in 1922, exploring first the background of Protestant churches and then the development of Catholic congregations. In addition, he sketches the internal political turmoil associated with the establishment of these churches in the community.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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: The first Negro churches in the District of Columbia. p. 64-107. Caption title. Originally published in: The Journal of Negro history. Vol 7, [no. 1, January] 1922. Signed at the end of the article: John W. Cromwell.

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