The Minutes of the Middle Ground Union Meetings of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association from 1883-1904

Reverend Doctor Linwood Boone D. MIN.

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The discovery of the Minutes of the Middle Ground Union Meeting filled in exisiting gaps from the May 1883 Annual Session of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Assocation to the first recorded quarterly of the Middle Ground Union Meeting commencing with the December 28, 1833 session hosted by the New Hope Baptist Church of Christ, in Gates County. N. C., until the 1904 Middle Ground Union Meeting convening with Piney Grove Baptist Church, Gates County, N. C. All minutes of the sessions prior to this session are presumbered to be lost. Numerous gaps, and partical minutes, and missing pages were overcomed by the body of information provided by the Minutes of the Middle Ground Union.
These early sainted ministers of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association and its Middle Ground Union Meeting put on their long dusters, black beaver hats and satchels containing a Bible, and a hymn book, and traveled fifity-one miles down the long winding roads and muddy streams preaching the gospel from Edenton, N. C., to Nansemond County, Virginia via-the Edenton-Suffolk Highway, and to all points along the way.
Upon arriving at their religious duty stations they preached to men who had been previously robbed by slavery of himself and made the property of another. In this position these preachers awaken the minds of their congregations to the fact that God had commissioned the Negro to a higher status in God's eye than those who oppressed him. This book records the quaterly 5th weekend sessions of those meetings.
This book provides clear examples of the purposes of the Middle Ground Union Meeting: preaching, evangelization, education and general race uplift to include the power to believe in themselves as people with intrinsic values. Pulpit preaching with the church as the center for black caring, mobilized the black community in obtaining indemnity for the past, and security for the future. The Middle Ground Union Meeting Ministers used the pulpit as great preaching station to address the social ills of the era.

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• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2022
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• EAN13: 9781665555081
• Langue: English
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The Minutes of the Middle Ground Union Meetings of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association From 1883-1904
 
 
 
Reverend Doctor Linwood Boone, D. MIN.
 
 
 

 
 
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Dr. Harold Harvey Murrill Sr.
September 22, 1940 - June 15, 2022
I dedicate this book to the memory of the late Reverend Dr. Harold Harvey Murrell, and to the other departed worthies of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association and its Middle Ground Union Meeting. Prayfully their memories will forever be with us.
Preface
The story of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association and its Middle Ground Union Meeting provided a vivid portrait of the challenging transition from slavery to religious freedom in Northeastern North Carolina. The participators in the Middle Ground Union Meeting were the children and grandchildren of Free People of Color and slaves who had been forbidden by law to learn how to read and write. Hence, they left very scant written materials. However, they left two volumes of minute’s discribing the 5 th weekend activities of the Middle Ground Union Meeting. These volumes introduced Northeastern North Carolina to the long-lost identities of some of the early laborers of the Middle Ground Union Meeting. These individuals are no longer lost or unknown to us. Coverage of their religious work began in 1883, and depicted the tensions and contradictions between the white christianity and the realities of post-slavery living. When these facts are combined with the Dr. Linwood Morings Boone, D. MIN., early works, The Chronology History of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association and Its Founders From 1866-1965, Volumes I & II, a comprehensive view of the work and the success of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association and its founders becomes apparent.
The parents of the founders of the Middle Ground Union Meeting were pious and respectable. They were resiliant in their efforts to create a religion under their own fig tree and under their own terms. Those terms were different from those unmercifully measured out to them by their former oppressors who had sanctioned their enslavement. Those parents operated their religious circles and fellowships in incognito. During the period of Reconstruction the former slaves made enroads to the isolated and unreached populations from Sunbury, in Gates County, to Hyde County, N. C. These people were motivated by one drive, what is the best way forward? They determined the best way forward was to spend time in study to receive the blessings of his Providence. By so doing, they believed “ideas and directions would burst upon them and awaken deep knowledge, greater than those experienced in the most polished churches of their enslavers.
Maurice V. Fowler, D. MIN.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Mother Church – The Haven Creek Missionary Baptist Church
Chapter 2: Minutes of the Middle Ground Union Meetings
1. New Hope Church
December 28, 1883
2. First Colored Hertford
June 29, 1884
3. Joppy
August 29, 1884
4. Welch’s Chapel
November 28, 1884
5. Mineral Springs
March 27, 1885
6. Saint John
August 27, 1885
7. Lebanon Grove
November 28, 1885
8. New Bagley Swamp
January 29, 1886
9. New Haven
August 29, 1886
10. Welch Chapel
October 29, 1886
11. Middle Swamp
January 29, 1887
12. Riddick Grove
July 29, 1887
13. Jappy
October 28, 1887
14. New Hope Baptist Church of Christ
January 27, 1888
15. First Colored Hertford
July 27, 1888
16. Saint Paul
September 28, 1888
17. New Bagley Swamp
December 28, 1888
18. Zion Tabernacle
March 29, 1889
19. New Bethel
June 28, 1889
20. Saunder’s Grove
September 29, 1889
21. Lebanon Grove
December 27, 1889
22. Stony Branch
March 28, 1890
23. Warren Grove
June 27, 1890
24. New Middle Swamp
March 26, 1891
25. Welch Chapel
August 28, 1891
26. Providence
November 27, 1891
27. New Bagley Swamp Chapel
January 29, 1892
28. Lebanon Grove
July 29, 1892
29. New Haven
October 28, 1892
30. Saint Paul
January 27, 1893
31. Melton Grove
April 28, 1893
32. White Oak Chapel
July 28, 1893
33. New Hope
October 27, 1893
34. Saunder’s Grove
December 29, 1893
35. Zion Tabernacle
July 27, 1894
36. First Colored
September 28, 1894
37. Galatia Baptist Church
December 28, 1894
38. First Colored Baptist

39. Lebanon Grove
March 29, 1895
40. New B. Swamp
September 27, 1895
41. Welch’s Chapel
December 27, 1895
42. Middle Swamp
March 28, 1896
43. Providence-Edenton
August 28, 1896
44. Jappy Baptist Church
November 27, 1896
45. Galatia Church
January 29, 1897
46. Center Hill Chapel
August 27, 1897
47. Riddick Grove
October 29, 1897
48. Stony Branch
January 27, 1898
49. St. John Baptist
May 27, 1898
50. New Bethel Baptist Church
July 29, 1898
51. St. Paul
October 28, 1898
52. Welch Chapel
January 27, 1899
53. Sanders Grove
April 28, 1899
54. Gale Street Baptist Church
July 28, 1899
55. Ellis Temple
October 28, 1899
56. Warren Grove
April 27, 1900
57. Zion Tabernacle
July 28, 1900
58. Melton Grove
September 28, 1900
59. Ryan’s Grove
December 28, 1900
60. New Hope
March 29, 1901
61. Galatia
June 28, 1901
62. White Oak Chapel
September 27, 1901
63. Jappy 1901
December 27, 1901