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Title

The first colored Baptist Church in North America : constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788 : with biographical sketches of the pastors / written for the church by Rev. James M. Simms.

Author

Simms, James M. (James Meriles)

Publication

• Philadelphia : Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888.
• ©1888.

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Details

Additional Authors

J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.

Description

264 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

James Simms, Georgia state legislator, pastor and church officer, writes the centennial history of the First Byran African Baptist Church in Savannah, in an effort to claim the title of first African American Baptist Church in North America away from the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Ga. Beneath the story of church quarrels is a historical record of the struggles associated with establishing, running and expanding a church for African Americans during the period from 1788 to 1888. The book reports on the Church's condition in 1888 and provides biographical sketches of its pastors.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.) History
• Baptists > Georgia > Savannah > History
• African American Baptists > Georgia > Savannah > History
• Savannah (Ga.) > Church history
• African American churches > Georgia > Savannah > History
• African American clergy > Biography
• Black author
• Georgia > Church history
• African American clergy > Georgia > Biography
• African Americans > Georgia > Savannah > Religion
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• African Americans > Georgia > Religion

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright, 1888, by James M. Simms."--verso of title page.
• "J.B. Lippincott Company, stereotypers and printers"--verso of title page.
• "Covenant, constitution, and by-laws"--pages 225-233; "Biographical sketches of the pastors"--pages 234-264.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "Mrs. Mary Church Terrell; Compliments of the author, James M. Simms." ;This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 286-S (Simms, J. The first Colored Baptist church)

LCCN

nuc87764401

OCLC

3704199

Author

Simms, James M. (James Meriles), author.

Title

The first colored Baptist Church in North America : constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788 : with biographical sketches of the pastors / written for the church by Rev. James M. Simms.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888.

Copyright Date

©1888.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 9424

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 286-S (accession no. B526357) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "Mrs. Mary Church Terrell; Compliments of the author, James M. Simms." ;This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.

Simms, James M. (James Meriles), inscriber.

Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954, former owner.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 286-S (Simms, J. The first Colored Baptist church)