Charles Octavius Boothe, born enslaved in Mobile County in 1845, opens with his own life story and then traces how Black Baptist congregations took shape across Alabama, from Mobile and Huntsville to Perry and Hale counties. The second half is a gallery of short biographies of the ministers and lay leaders who built churches, schools and associations in the decades after emancipation.
An invaluable record of African American religious life in the Reconstruction South, written from within. Download the free EPUB.