Stained Glass Windows in the front-First Baptist Church - Baltimore MD
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Don.Morfe
N 39° 17.817 W 076° 35.842
18S E 362257 N 4350946
The church as six stained glass windows in the front of the church with three of them over the front entrance.
Waymark Code: WM16VN0
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 10/11/2022
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TEXT ON THE HISTORICAL MARKER:
First Baptist Church-First Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist church in Maryland, was founded amidst turmoil in 1836, five years after Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia. Alarmed at the Rebellion, Maryland and other slave states passed laws restricting the movement of free Blacks across state lines, prohibiting the employment of free Black immigrants, and forbidding the teaching of reading and writing to slaves.
In this heavily charged atmosphere, Moses Clayton, an ex-slave and lay minister from Norfolk, Virginia was called to Baltimore by William Crane, a well-known merchant and active Baptist, also from Norfolk. Clayton arrived in Baltimore in 1834, began Sunday School classes in his home, and was ordained the following year. On February 2, 1836, the "First Colored People's Baptist Church of Baltimore" was founded and housed in a school building near Belair Market, offered rent-free by a sympathetic banker.
As minister, Clayton energetically fought for the education of Black children. He joined other activists in petitioning the City to stop taxing Blacks for the support of public schools which excluded them, and urged a separate system to be established. The petitions were rejected, but the Baptist Sunday School, through its religious and secular classes, continued to play a vital part in the struggle to provide education to the Black community.
Type of building where window is located: Church
Address:
525 North Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD United States
21205
Admission Charge: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Days of Operation: Sunday
Hours of Operation: From: 8:00 AM To: 1:00 PM
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