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Tag Archives: july 13 1865

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 13, 1865

In the early post-war months the African Zion Baptist Church of Tinkersville, in West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley, has emerged as the area’s “main organization completely owned and controlled by Negroes.” Organized in February 1863, the congregation initially met in the home of Rev. Lewis Rice, a champion of religious and secular education for blacks. Considered…

July 13, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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