27 Jan 2011
The North of the South

Proof that truth can be stranger than fiction - history is never as tidy as we'd like.

First African Baptist Church was among the largest and best-known religious institutions in Richmond, Va., during the mid-19th century. By 1861 its congregation numbered over 3,000 — a megachurch by even 21st-century standards. A quarter of the city’s total black population, free and slave, belonged to what one white observer deemed "the largest Protestant church in the world."

(link) [New York Times]

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