CSPAN3 American Artifacts March 5, 2016
This structure was donated about 10 years ago by the descendents of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the liv...
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