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Paper Introduction: History of the African-American Baptist Church The first African-American Baptist Church was organized on January at Brampton\'s Barn some three miles west of Savannah by the whiteBaptist minister Abraham Marshall and the black minister Jesse Peter Love From this early beginning the African-American Baptist Churchdeveloped over time into one of the most significant religiouscongregations not only in the American South but in the country as a whole This essay will discuss the history of this faith which spread amongslaves in the Deep Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. (1993). TheFirst Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island had 19 African-Americanmembers as early as 1772 but as McCulley (1999) points out, it would besome time later when the first black Baptist institution was developed inthe South. This particular church grew during the slave era and actuallypredated the establishment of a white Baptist church in Savannah by fiveyears. According to Roberson (2 5), in 1877, the Second Colored BaptistChurch was established in Montgomery and later renamed first the DexterAvenue Baptist Church and later, the Dexter Avenue King Memorial BaptistChurch. By 184 , these same pioneers had established the American BaptistMissionary Convention which had a primary goal of evangelizing Africarather than bringing the faith to the slaves of the South. These were exceptions rather than the rule. History of the First African Baptist Church, from Its Organization, January 2 , 1788 to July 1, 1888. It would not be until after the end of theCivil War that blacks were able to create their own unique churches and toestablish them along with seminaries for training ministers throughout theSouth (Roberson, 2 5). Available at www.nationalbaptist.com/Index.cfm/ ... For the most part, asHigginbotham (1993) points out, slaves were denied the right to participatein religious institutions outside of those permitted on their homeplantations by their owners. McCulley (1999) states that in the North, black Baptists faced fewerchallenges. This church was known as a silk stocking congregation whichattracted the social and economic elite of Montgomery's post-Civil Warblack community. Groupsof black women established the Women's Convention within the NationalBaptist Convention as well as a sisterhood of African-American women whohelped to develop race, gender, and class consciousness and to adopt adiscourse of resistance to systemized oppression. Althoughafter the Civil War some white Baptist churches accepted black members, thevast majority of black Baptists found a home only in the Black BaptistChurch. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Love, E.K. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 188 -192 . A number of significant individual churches emerged during this era,including the First African Baptist Church of Savannah which had beenestablished in 1788 by David George, George Liele, and Andrew Bryan (Love,1999). Available at http://docsouth.unc.edu /church/love/love.html. (1999). The National Baptist Convention,according to Dr. Wilson Fallin (2 9), was instrumental in providing afoundation for the unity of independent black Baptist churches. Cowan of North Carolina gave slaves privilege papers entitlingthem to preach on several plantations. No discussion of the African-American Baptist Church would becomplete with reference to the significant role played by women.Higginbotham (1993) notes that it was in the Black Baptist church duringthe final decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentiethcentury that African-American women's groups became quite powerful. This church also established a school for religious and secularstudies for black children, affirming the mission of the African-AmericanBaptist Church as involving the education of youth. ReferencesFallin, W. Love (1999) makes thecase that First Savannah served as the model that would be used at otherchurches including the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. It was also a center in which African-American women came intoprominence as educators, contributors to the life and vitality of thecongregation, and as central actors in the community and social activismthat characterized the Church. Overall, while thisbrief report cannot do justice to the long and rich history of the African-American Baptist Church, it should make it clear that this Church has beeninstrumental in advancing the African-American community from the days ofslavery through the activism of the twentieth century. History of the National Baptist Convention, USA Inc. Fighting the Good Fight: The Story of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865- 1977. (2 9). It was not until 1895, that African-American Baptists created theNational Baptist Convention (McCulley, 1999). Accessed online June 8, 2 9.McCulley, C. Christian History, 18(2), 37.Roberson, H.B. New York: Routledge. From their very inception,the black Baptist churches perceived their mission as encompassing secularas well as religious education, empowering African-Americans forcitizenship while integrating them into the Church, and encouragingeconomic development (Fallin, 2 9). It would be from Ohio that the firstblack Baptist missionaries emerged, creating as well the first associationof black Baptist churches called the Providence Baptist Association in1834. From this early beginning, the African-American Baptist Churchdeveloped over time into one of the most significant religiouscongregations not only in the American South but in the country as a whole.This essay will discuss the history of this faith, which spread amongslaves in the Deep South and which today serves the needs of millions ofAfrican-American Christians (Roberson, 2 5). This came about when a limited number of slave owners such asThomas L. This tradition, said McCulley(1999), was expanded by George Liele, who helped to establish the earliestindependent black Baptist churches in the late 18 s. In the 17 s, white Baptists rarely evangelized slaves althoughrecords show occasional examples of slaves who were admitted to membershipin the Baptist faith and a handful of free men and women of color who weresimilarly accepted in official Baptist churches (McCulley, 1999). Baptist power. Accessed online June 8, 2 9.Higginbotham, E.B. (2 5). They organized churches in Boston in 18 5, in New York in18 8, and in Philadelphia in 18 9. (1999). History of the African-American Baptist Church The first African-American Baptist Church was organized on January2 , 1788 at Brampton's Barn, some three miles west of Savannah by the whiteBaptist minister Abraham Marshall and the black minister Jesse Peter (Love,1999). Roberson (2 5) noted that this congregation used aseries of social advocacy and protest initiatives, functioning over theentire course of its history as a source of activism on behalf of African-Americans. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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