- Collection:
- The Church in the Southern Black Community
- Title:
- The Silver Bluff Church : a history of Negro Baptist churches in America / by Walter H. Brooks, D.D.
- Creator:
- Brooks, Walter H. (Walter Henderson), b. 1851
- Publisher:
- Washington, D.C. : press of R.L. Pendleton
- Date of Original:
- 1910
- Subject:
- African American Baptists--South Carolina--Silver Bluff--History--18th century
African American Baptists--Georgia--History--18th century
African American churches--South Carolina--Silver Bluff--History--18th century
African American churches--Georgia--History--18th century
African Americans--Religion
Slaves--Religious life--South Carolina
Silver Bluff Church (Aiken County, S.C.)--History
Slaves--Religious life--Georgia
Silver Bluff (S.C.)--Church history - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, South Carolina, Aiken County, Silver Bluff, 33.31125, -81.854 - Medium:
- books
histories - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Brooks's history claims that the Silver Bluff Church of Aiken, South Carolina, was the first African American Baptist Church in America, established in 1774 or 1775 by the Rev. Wait Palmer of Stonington, Ct. With the advent of the Revolutionary War, the owner of the land on which the church stood abandoned the plantation, and the Rev. George Brooks and 50 slaves fled to the protection of the British in Savannah. Brooks details the subsequent career of George Brooks in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, then tells of the end of the Silver Bluff Church. It flourished until 1793, when much of the congregation was absorbed into the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, whose power and influence grew over time, eventually leading to the disintegration of the Silver Bluff Church.
Title from electronic title page.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [48]).
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.
Text scanned (OCR) by Sarah Reuning. Images scanned by Sarah Reuning. Text encoded by Nancy Kaiser and Jill Kuhn.
Text in both HTML and SGML formats.
Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/brooks/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 47 p. : port. ; 15 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
- Rights:
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