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We've recently helped appraise, pack, and transport original records out of the historic First African Presbyterian Church, now home to New River Presbyterian Church. Organized in 1807 by John Gloucester, First African is the mother congregation of Black Presbyterianism--the first Black Presbyterian congregation in the United States.

Gloucester was born into slavery in 1776 and was manumitted by the Presbyterian missionary...

Now available in Pearl are images from the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations photograph collection (RG 223).

The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) was organized in 1837 with a self-described purpose of...