jul 7, 1773 - South Carolina: First Black Church (1773)

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"Silver Bluff Baptist Church in Aiken County, South Carolina, becomes the first separate black church in the United States.

Over the centuries, black churches emerged as perhaps the most powerful community in the struggle for emancipation and justice."

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https://www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/slavery-united-states/

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