Friday, April 9, 2021

Negro Baptizing in the Tangipahoa River


Baptizing's are held in the river, where sometimes as many as one hundred Negroes are baptized in one way. Negro preacher and about ten or twelve elders from an aisle for them to pass on down to the baptismal hole, while several hundred on the bank sing, "I am going down to Jordan to be baptized.


Bibliography:

Mississippi Department of Archives 1902-1907. WPA

Source Material for Mississippi History Pike County, Vol. 57, Part 2

 



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