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The First Baptist Church of Charleston is widely recognized as the oldest Baptist church in the American South, with a history that reaches back to the late seventeenth century. Its story is closely tied to the struggle for religious liberty, the spread of Baptist convictions, and the shaping of early church life in the southern colonies. The church traces its Read more...
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John Girardeau was pastor of the Anson Street Presbyterian Mission in the late 1850s, before the Civil War. The Mission was targeted to the enslaved population. In Girardeau’s biography we read: The greatest event in his ministry was the revival in the later fifties. This began with a prayer meeting that constantly increased until the house was filled. Some of Read more...