Religion as Context for Black Exclusion

The Negro Christianized by Cotton Mather, 1706

Found: Digital Commons University of Nebraska- Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/28/

North Parish Church Meetings Records March 17 1766

Found: North Andover Historical Society

“Voted that all the English women who marry or associate with negro or mullatto men be seated in the meeting house with the negro women”

North Parish Church Meetings Records November 21 1803

Found: North Andover Historical Society

“It was put to a vote if the parish would provide a seat in the meeting house for the negros. The meeting was then dissolved and (illegible) in the negative”

Pliny Fisk, “Letter concerning prayers for slaves and religion in Andover, Letter to Rev. Ephraim H. Newton” (March 10, 1818). Ms s 551. Andover Center for History and Culture, Andover, MA.

Found- Andover Center for History and Culture

North Parish Church Meetings Records March 10 1825

Found: North Andover Historical Society

Pg 2 “voted that 10 feet of the east end of the side galleries be appropriated for the use of colored people”