Second African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.) records, 1812-1979.

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Second African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.) records, 1812-1979.

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The records of the Second African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia are divided into seven series: Church Minutes; Legal Documents; Church Rolls, Minute Books and Annual Reports; Financial Records; Sunday School Records, Church Organizations' Minutes; and Church History, Printed Matter, Miscellaneous.

3 microfilm reels.

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First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)

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George Liele, a slave preacher who ministered along the Savannah River, formed the First African Baptist congregation sometime in the early 1770s. During the Revolutionary War, Liele left the United States and appointed Andrew Bryan, also a slave, to lead the church. Bryan built the first church in 1795. In 1833 a division split the congregation into the Bryant Church and the First African Baptist. The present structure of the First African Baptist Church at Franklin Square was erected in 1859. ...

Second African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)

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Second African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia was founded in 1802 by members of the First Colored Church (now the First Arican Baptist Church of Savannah). In the early years of the nineteenth century, the Savannah River Association, an organization of Baptist churches composed of one black and two white churches, including the First Colored Church, decided to strengthen the Association by organizing two additional black churches out of the membership of the First Colored Church....