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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 220 Print image (65K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 220 Print image (65K) |
| Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, and Presbyterians could assign one of the white leaders of the denomination, but that was not the case with the Baptist church. The Rev. Moses Clayton established a small Baptist church in 1836 known as First Baptist Church. The church was poor and slow. Clayton's salary was underwritten by the white Baptists of Maryland. In 1742, Maryland's first African American church was built in a walnut grove on Chestnut Ridge in Howard County and was named Sater's Baptist Church. In 1872, the Rev. Harvey Johnson initiated a progressive African American movement in Baltimore,, and later established the Negro Baptist Church. Union Baptist Church on Druid Hill Avenue was the first African American Baptist Church organized by African Americans, although it was the third Baptist church attended by African Americans in the state. African American Episcopalians established the St. James Episcopal Church in 1826 on a second floor of a west Baltimore building. Under the leadership of the later Dr. George F. Bragg who served for 50 years, the church was incorporated in 1828. The first African American deacon was ordained in Cecil County in 1834. In 1848, the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church was organized by white Presbyterians as a mission for Blacks. White leadership of the congregation continued for the next 100 years until the Rev. VY. W. Walker made it an independent church. Baltimore remains in the forefront of African American history in the Catholic church. The first African American Catholic priest in this country was Father Charles Randolph Uncles of Baltimore,, who was ordained in December, 1891 at St. Francis Xavier Church. In 1984 the Archdiocese of Baltimore installed Bishop John Record as the first African American Bishop of Baltimore. Summary of Founding Dates of Churches by African Americans in Baltimore 1797 Bethel A.M.E. Church was organized and Rev. Daniel Coker became its first pastor. 1834 William Douglass became the first Episcopal priest ordained in Maryland. 1829 The first Sisterhood among Blacks was founded in Baltimore on July 2, the Oblate Sisters of Providence. This same year, they founded the St. Francis Academy. 1891 Charles Randolph Uncles was ordained as the first black Catholic priest in the state. 1802 Sharp Street United Methodist Church organized. SS-70 |