[Detail] Training School for Wives and Mothers, Baton Gouge, La. 1888 
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Collection Overview
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780 - 1925, documents the growth of the "Black Church" in the American South and how evangelical Christianity was modified by the African-American community to encourage dreams of freedom, the importance of community, and the desire for personal survival. Included are materials that document the conflicts in the church caused by slavery. Also of interest are some slave narratives that document the role of the church in slave communities. The collection was compiled from printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- The New Nation, 1780-1815
- Expansion and Reform, 1801-1861
- The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
- Development of the Industrial United States, 1876-1915
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- American Life Histories, 1936-1940
- African American Perspectives, 1818-1907
- African American Odyssey
- First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
- Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
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Last Updated: 06/12/2009