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Brown Bag Lunch: A Free Negro Who Owned the Covenant

Early African Americans in Congregational, Reformed, and Presbyterian Churches


Join scholar Richard Boles for a discussion of African American affiliation with northern churches during the eighteenth century. What accounts for the differences between their relationships with prominent denominations of the time and what does this information suggest about the histories of enslaved and free blacks in the North?

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