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  1. Evangelical Religion in Western Virginia
    date 1830map GREENBRIER, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    Joshua 24:15 spoke strongly to Robert Whitehead. If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord. Choose ye this day whom you will serve. Mr. Spriggs, the young Methodist minister who delivered this message in Lewisburg in 1830, awed Whitehead with his forceful words to the point that he attended church twice that day. Whitehead knew that one day the young gentleman would be a religious personality to...

  2. Abolitionist Expelled from Bethany College
    date October 12, 1855 to 1856map BROOKE, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Politics, Slavery

    It was the fall of 1855; Bethany College in Bethany, Virginia had been in session for only a few weeks when an incident shattered the equanimity of the student population. Five northern students were dismissed for trying to introduce their Abolitionism into the college, into its literary societies, and into the church, according to the college president and founder, famed Restoration minister Alexander...

  3. A Good Christian
    date 1851map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    As a sociable southerner, one expected certain attributes from you: manners, dress that suited your means, Christianity. Although Mary Jane Holladay wrote in her diary that it was her constant prayer that she should be able to please her husband and have a loving marriage, she was quite anxious when it came to religion. In her opinion, it was better to spend time wrestling with and testing her faith...

  4. Slaves and Their Religion
    date 1826 to 1842map ORLEANS, Louisianatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Race-Relations, Slavery

    By 1834, Black churches had begun to exist in various parts of the United States. In this year, the First African Church of New Orleans, which had been officially founded in October of 1826, received two new Baptist pastors after the death of its founding pastor. These Brethren Sanders and Satterfield breathed new life into the church with their worship leadership, and membership flourished once more....

  5. African American Religious Communities
    date 1875map LIBERTY, Georgiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Race-Relations

    Old Midway Church in Liberty County, Georgia served as a place where both whites and blacks came together to worship in antebellum society. A Congregational polity, its members opposed secession, but the rising tensions brought on by the Civil War resulted in the termination of communication between the Church and its fellow congregations in the North. During Reconstruction, a white Congregational...

  6. Mummy Visits Charleston
    date January 31, 1824map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Education

    The Lady of Thebes Mummy was exhibited in Charleston and described in the Charleston Courier on January 31, 1824. The mummy was on a tour and had already visited Boston, Massachusetts. It's coffin was covered in hieroglyphics, and it was really a sight to see for the people of Charleston. The ancient Egyptian burial rites were a whole different world to the white Christians of South Carolina. The...

  7. The Old Woman Who Sold Ale
    date April 29, 1820map ARKANSAS, Arkansastags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    On August 29, 1820, the Arkansas Gazette told of an old woman who had dozed off one Sunday in church, probably due to the heat and an oppressively long and boring sermon. The incident might have gone unnoticed but for her Bible, which slipped out of her lap and fell to the floor, creating a massive racket. Jolted half awake by the noise, the elderly lady, known to her fellow churchgoers as a seller...

  8. Enslaved Man Named Tom Runs Away
    date May 2, 1815map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    An enslaved man named Tom ran away on May 2. This was reported in the City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser for months. He had been a paper boy (carrier of the City Gazette) and was able to read and write. He was formerly enslaved in Virginia (his mother was still there) and worked for the Petersburg Intelligencer. He was known for his skill at the printing press. The owner believed that Tom...

  9. The Proper Influence of a Woman
    date January 18, 1876map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    Armed with biblical justification found in the book of Genesis, Reverend W. E. Edwards preached at length to a great crowd at the Granby Street Methodist Church, concerning the proper role of women. He claimed Eve's involvement in the first human sin left her with certain characteristics that trickled down to even the women seated there before him. In all women, Edwards claimed one found a frailty,...

  10. African American Religious Services
    date September 18, 1868map PAGE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Race-Relations

    In one edition of the Page Valley Courier Newspaper a reader asserts that The African Baptist Church is larger than any other Baptist church other than on in England. The same gentleman informed the newspaper that he recently attended there sitting by the right side of Chief Justice Chase and ex-Governor Wise, when two hundred persons were baptized. Their evening prayer meeting is attended by over...

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