Historical Digest of Jefferson County, West Virginia's African American Congregations, 1864-1994: With Selected Churches in Neighboring Berkeley

...One can find snippets of slave records, baptismal records, wedding records, property ownership records, photographs, and other records. All of the major African American Christian traditions are present in this county ...They have demonstrated an important feature of the African American community, that is, denominational lines might be useful, but the African American community is sometimes closer to one another than their denominational lines suggest ...One of the interesting things about this study is the number of congregations that have been engaged in cooperative projects together....Thomas J. Scott is the author of 'Historical Digest of Jefferson County, West Virginia's African American Congregations, 1864-1994: With Selected Churches in Neighboring Berkeley' with ISBN 9781877971143 and ISBN 1877971146.