A historical sketch of the first colored Baptist church, Weldon, N.C
Subtitle: with the life and labor of Elder Joseph Baysmore : with four collected sermons
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 Americans; Biography; African American clergy; Slaves; Religion; Baptists; Sermons; American Sermons; Law and gospel; Redemption; Faith; Church history
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: A In this pamphlet, Joseph Baysmore provides a brief autobiographical sketch, from his birth through 1883, when he left the Baptist church in Weldon, N.C. to become a traveling evangelist in Halifax County, N.C., and in Virginia. Included in this pamphlet are four of Baysmore's sermons. $
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: A historical sketch of the first colored Baptist church, Weldon, N.C. : with the life and labor of Elder Joseph Baysmore : with four collected sermons. Weldon, N.C. : printed at Harrell's Printing House, 1887. 12 p. Cover title.

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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Sermons: 1. The harmony of the law and gospel; title: 2. Subject of the pure in heart; title: 3. How we were made sinners and how we were redeemed from sin and made heirs of God by his love; title: 4. The confirmation of Christian faith.