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- Title
The Burnt Swamp Baptist Association: A Fellowship of Indian Baptist Churches.
- Authors
Cummings, Mike
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of the Burnt Swamp Baptist Association and its Indian Baptist churches in the U.S. It has over 10,000 church members from tribes of Lumbee, Waccamaw-Siouan, Coharie, Haliwa-Saponi and Tuscarora in North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland. It was the result of various church meetings to discuss the lack of pastors and resources in January 1881. It was first named the Burnt Swamp Missionary Baptist Association of the Mixed Race and its first officers were Carey and John Wilkins and Gilbert Locklear.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BAPTIST associations; BAPTIST church buildings; NATIVE American religion; BAPTISTS -- Societies, etc.; CHURCH meetings
- Publication
Baptist History & Heritage, 2008, Vol 43, Issue 2, p8
- ISSN
0005-5719
- Publication type
Article