Historic black church rises from ashes of Civil War: The legacy of First Baptist Church in Hampton, Virginia — founded by free and enslaved blacks on the site of a place abandoned and burned by rebellious whites — can still be felt nearly 150 years later.
Photo: Church archivist Catherine Howard holds up a hymnal that dates to the founding of First Baptist Church Hampton after the Civil War. Credit: Rob Ostermaier / Daily Press
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
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