The History of the Negro Church

by Carter Godwin Woodson

THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO CHURCH BY CARTER G. WOODSON, Ph.D.

Editor of the Journal of Negro History, author of A Century of Negro Migration, and of the Education of the Negro Prior to 1861

THE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Copyright, 1921

By THE ASSOCIATED PUBLISHERS

TO
THE CHERISHED MEMORY OF
MY MOTHER

ANNE ELIZA WOODSON

PREFACE

The importance of the church in the life of the Negro justifies the publication of this brief account of the development of the institution. For many years the various denominations have been writing treatises bearing on their own particular work, but hitherto there has been no effort to study the achievements of all of these groups as parts of the same institution and to show the evolution of it from the earliest period to the present time. This is the objective of this volume.