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ILLUSTRATIONS

Black Church History
Black Church History

 

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

Black Church History
Black Church History

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"The Negro Christianized," from Cotton Mather:  A Bibliography of His Works by Thomas J. Holmes (Cambridge,  Mass., 1940).

Black Church History
Black Church History

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Artist's conception of the Nat Turner Rebellion.

 

Courtesy Howard University,

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.

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Black Church History
Black Church History

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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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