A history of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina [electronic resource] / by J.A. Whitted.
Traces the history and development of the black Baptist church in North Carolina, beginning with the pre-Civil War era and ending during the first decade of the twentieth-century. It also traces the establishment of North Carolina based black Baptist foreign mission societies that conducted missionary activities in Africa and details the history of Shaw University, located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Other chapters provide biographical sketches of leading black Baptists, and brief histories of the Baptist secondary schools, Baptist papers, associations and conventions in North Carolina from the 1860s through the 1900s.
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Record details
- Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Kathryn Lofton. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Andrew Leiter, and Jill Kuhn Sexton.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.Title from electronic title page.
- Original Version Note:
- Transcribed from: A history of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina / by Rev. J.A. Whitted, D.D. Raleigh : Presses of Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1908. 212 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
- Funding Information Note:
- Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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- System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection.
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African American Baptists > North Carolina > Clergy > Biography.
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African Americans > North Carolina > Religion.
Baptist associations > North Carolina > History.
Baptists > Missions > Africa.
Baptists > North Carolina > History.
Clergy > North Carolina > Biography.
North Carolina > Church history.
