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Additional authors

1. Walker, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1858-1921.
2. Wright, Richard Robert, 1855-1947.

Description

1. [7], B-E, [6], iv-v, [1], 360 p. : ill., ports.; 21 cm

Summary

1. Love, the pastor of the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, writes this history to argue his Church's claim to be the "first African-American Baptist Church in North America." He gives a detailed report of the rise of the Church under Andrew Bryan before the split of 1832, when a majority of the members followed Andrew C. Marshall to form a new church in Franklin Square in Savannah, retaining the old name. He provides biographies of the pastors and important leaders of the new congregation, including his own administration, and concludes by giving the documents, addresses and sermons surrounding the first centennial celebration, which included the adjudication of the dispute between the two churches.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. African American clergy > Biography
2. African Americans > Georgia > Biography
3. Savannah (Ga.) > Church history
4. Georgia > Church history
5. First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)
6. Black author
7. African American Baptists > Georgia > Savannah
8. African American churches > Georgia > Savannah

Call number

1. Sc Rare 286-L (Love, E. K. History of the First African Baptist Church)

Note

1. "(Copyright, 1888, by Rev. E.K. Love, author.)"--title page.
2. Includes introductions by Charles T. Walker and Richard R. Wright.

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Love, E. K. (Emanuel King), 1850-1900.

Title

1. History of the First African Baptist Church : from its organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the centennial celebration, addresses, sermons, etc. / by Rev. E.K. Love, D.D.

Imprint

1. Savannah, Ga. : The Morning News Print, 1888.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 286-L (accession no. B526387) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material
3. Internet Archive, UNC Chapel Hill copy

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Walker, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1858-1921.
2. Wright, Richard Robert, 1855-1947.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 26005886

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 286-L (Love, E. K. History of the First African Baptist Church)