The first Colored Baptist church in North America. Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788

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The first Colored Baptist church in North America. Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names: Simms, James M. (James Meriles) (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1888
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare 286-S (Simms, J. M. The first Colored Baptist church)
Topics: African American Baptists
Genres: Photographs; Illustrations
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR3704199-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21757133; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a0655f10-c61d-012f-7976-58d385a7bc34