Leroy Fitts's A History of Black Baptists is an academic history, published by Broadman Press, of Black Baptist churches in America from their origins through the twentieth century. Fitts was himself a Baptist minister and scholar, and the book's authority rests on his combination of denominational insider knowledge with documentary historical research into the specific congregations, associations and conventions that make up Black Baptist church history in the United States. Its strength is bringing together in one volume an institutional history that had often been scattered across individual denominational and congregational records. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single author synthetic history covering more than a century, so a claim about one specific congregation or convention's own particular history benefits from that institution's own dedicated records or history alongside this general survey.
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Leroy Fitts's A History of Black Baptists, published by Broadman Press, is treated at the top tier as academic history combining denominational insider knowledge with documentary research into specific congregations and conventions. NotesAcademic history of Black Baptist churches in America.
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AuthorLeroy Fitts
PublisherBroadman Press
Publication Year1985
Source Typeacademic monograph
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