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Browse booksDogged Determination
Nannie H. Burroughs calls Black Baptists to a renewed, dogged determination in Christian civilization, moral uplift, self-help, and productive responsibility.
Historical AccountsGreat Men and Their Deeds
Biographical sketches of leaders, ministers, teachers, soldiers, builders, and reformers.
Primary SourceJupiter Hammon's Address to the Negroes in the State of New York
A foundational early Black American address on faith, moral life, slavery, and responsibility.
TheologyLemuel Haynes' Sermons
Sermons and writings from one of early America's most important Black ministers.
CatechismOld AME Catechisms
Early catechetical materials from the AME tradition for studying doctrine, memory, and formation.
EssayProtest or Production: The 1961 Black Baptist Schism
An essay on the 1961 division between the National Baptist Convention and the Progressive National Baptist Convention, contrasting protest politics with Christian formation, civic order, and productive institution-building.
Sermon ExcerptThe Nature of Regeneration
Lemuel Haynes on the agency of the Holy Spirit in regeneration, the fruits of the new birth, and the necessity of being born again.
AddressWhat, Then, Must We Do Now?
Joseph H. Jackson calls Black Baptists beyond resentment and pampering toward responsibility, one American standard, moral discipline, and the one gospel of Jesus Christ.