we
quote, adds: "A committee was also appointed to furnish blacking and
brushes with which to clean the delegates' boots and shoes, and to see
to the general comfort of the delegates." We agree with Mr. Kennard in
the reflection: "At that age there did not seem to be as much
prejudice among Christians or as much separation as since."[6]

The second step in the development was that of expansion abroad. There
had been planted Negro Baptist churches, like the First African
Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia, in 1793, and Amos's Church at New
Providence, Bahama Islands, British West Indies, in 1788. George Liele
carried the work of the Baptists into Jamaica in 1784; and David
George extended it to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and finally into
Sierra Leone about the same time. In this connection it may be
remarked that because a Baptist church can arise and continue to exist
as a self-originating, self-governing body without any consent or
approval from without, the work of the denomination rapidly expanded.
White ministers fully ordained to the ministry Negro Baptists, Negro
Episcopalians and Negro Presbyterians and inducted them into
pastorates, at a time when the Methodist Episcopal Church in America
was not at first inclined to do so. This denomination, therefore,
brought about that condition which resulted in the setting up of an
independent African Methodist denomination under Peter Spencer in
1812, of another under Richard Allen in 1816, and still another under
James Varick in 1820.

It should be remarked, moreover, that all Negro Baptist churches,
except those in the South, which came out of white churches during
slavery, had Negro pastors. Yet whatever their differences, Negro
Baptists and white Baptists in America constituted one family until
after the Civil War. Indeed there has never been any formal separation
of the two groups. Each has simply followed the race instinct, in an
age of freedom, while the one group cooperates with the other, North
and South.

There were Negro Baptist churches in the South for more than a quarter
of a century before they began to be constituted in the North, and
about a half century before the first church of the kind was planted
in the West. When in 1805, moreover, the first African Baptist church
was organized at Boston, Massachusetts, it was not only the first
Negro Baptist church in the North, but was also the only independent
Negro church north except the St. Thomas Episc