A comprehensive study of African-American Baptist history and the key role played in the development of Christianity in America.

"The history of black people in the United States is a history of challenge and resilience, of suffering and solidarity, of injustice and prophetic resistance.

Traces the origins and developments of black Baptist interest in the Southern states and their efforts to evangelize West Africa in particular, and also conside

This extensive resource traces significant aspects of Baptist history from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. It surveys basic beliefs, events, an

The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are