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EDWARD D. SMITH, Black Church History
ILLUSTRATIONS
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The First African Baptist Church of Savannah,
erected in 1794. Engraved from photograph taken in 1873. Reprinted from The First Colored Baptist Church in North America by James A. Simms (Philadelphia, 1888).
Courtesy Library of Congress
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"The Negro Christianized," from Cotton Mather: A Bibliography of His Works by Thomas J. Holmes (Cambridge, Mass., 1940).
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Artist's conception of the Nat Turner Rebellion.
Courtesy Howard University,
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
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John Jasper (1812-1901) pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia.
Courtesy Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia, Huestis Pratt Cook Collection.
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