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3298
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The Ethel Taylor Crittendon Collection of Baptist History at Wake Forest University includes 12,000 books and 420 collections of personal papers that reflect not only denominational history, but also history of the state.
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3850
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Because of their emphasis on heartfelt faith, Baptist and Methodist churches appealed to people more than the Anglican church's emphasis on wealth and liturgy. The first Baptist church was founded in Camden County in 1727, while Methodists became a denomination in December, 1784.
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15095
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Ridgecrest was one of the largest Baptist assemblies on the east coast. Located eighteen miles east of Asheville at the top of Swannanoa Gap, the three month engagement drew over 25,000 people to the Southern Baptist Assembly. The assembly drew educators, scientists, and political leaders from almost every state and approximately a dozen countries.
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20937
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This article examines services offered by Baptist parishes to aide their African American parishioners during reconstruction. Attention is given to social relations between white and African American parishioners, as well as to issues surrounding religious education, missions, congregational segregation, white superiority and bigotry, and African American ministers and churches.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 42 Issue 4, Oct 1965,
p391-409, f
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21567
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The Reverend Patrick W. Dowd was one of the leading figures amongst Baptists in North Carolina, but is practically ignored or presented in a negative light in Baptist histories. His treatment is blamed on his involvement in sexual misconduct and sermon plagiarism controversies in 1852. Upon closer examinations, those charges against Reverend Dowd, had less to do with ethics and more to do with theological differences and religious power struggles amongst North Carolina Baptists at the time.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992,
p282-300 , il, por, f
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21868
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During the middle part of the 20th century, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina worked to convinced Baptists throughout the state to accept desegregation. From 1945 all the way up to 1980, progressive Baptist leaders pushed for an end to racial violence, more equal opportunity for all, an end to school segregation, and a universal nondiscrimination policy.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 75 Issue 1, Jan 1998,
p1-28 , il, por, f
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34499
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This article is a reprint of a 1918 letter detailing the first Atlantic Primitive Baptist Church. Formed in 1829, church members erected the structure which was destroyed in 1885. There were numerous delays in re-building as a central property could not be bought without difficulty in obtaining the title.
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37372
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These are small biographies of the early preachers in the Chowan Baptist Association from 1882, which include: Amos Harrell, Robert Hendry, Lemuel Burkitt, Nathaniel Pruden, Moses Gilliam, Thomas Weymouth, Aaron Spivey, Job Pettijohn, Thomas Brownrigg, Martin Ross, Turner Carter, John Blount, John Harrell, Reuben Lawrence, William White, George M. Thompson, William P. Britton, James Ross, Lemuel Sanderlin, Malachi W. Jones.
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