The Negro Church: Report Of A Social Study Made Under The Direction Of Atlanta University; Together With The Proceedings Of The Eighth Conference For ... Held At Atlanta University, May 26Th, 1903

The Negro Church is the only social institution of the Negroes which started in the African forest and survived slavery; under the leadership of priest or medicine man, afterward of the Christian pastor, the Church preserved in itself the remnants of African tribal life and became after emancipation the center of Negro social life. So that today the Negro population of the United States is virtually divided into church congregations which are the real units of race life.