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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 (1982, 1999) Pulitzer Prize winner, dealing with religion and morality online review; Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen "Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, 1760–1777," Journal of Southern History (1984) 50#4 pp 551–568 in JSTOR
Elijah Baker (1742 - November 06, 1798) was an American Baptist minister who preached in Virginia and Maryland.He is known to have preached in Henrico, James City, Charles City, and York Counties [2] before traveling Gloucester County and ultimately founding numerous churches on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland.
The Baptists and Presbyterians were subject to many legal constraints and faced growing persecution; between 1768 and 1774, about half of the Baptists ministers in Virginia were jailed for preaching, in defiance of England's Act of Toleration of 1689 that guaranteed freedom of worship for Protestants. At the start of the Revolution, the ...
Baptists were active after emancipation in promoting the education of former slaves; for example, Jamaica's Calabar High School, named after the port of Calabar in Nigeria, was founded by Baptist missionaries.
In 1797, Moore attended the Katocton Baptist Association, which recommended the gradual emancipation of slaves. [16] [17] Moore was a founder of the First Baptist Church of Washington, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, and Second Baptist Church of Washington. [5] [8]
Seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity, in 1781 Elijah's brother Rev. Lewis Craig led an exodus of up to 600 people known as "The Travelling Church" (composed of his parents, younger siblings, and most of his congregation from Spotsylvania County) [14] to the area of Virginia known as Kentucky County (they were the largest single group to so migrate). [15]
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First Baptist Church (est. 1774) was the first Baptist church in Petersburg, Virginia; [1] one of the first African-American Baptist congregations in the United States, and one of the oldest black churches in the nation. [2] It established one of the first local schools for black children in the nation.