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Synopsis
Pictorially chronicles the history of the Abyssinian Black Church in Harlem, examining the worship services, daily routines, and lives of the congregation from its beginning in the early nineteenth century to the present.
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About the Author
ROBERT L. GORE, JR. is the chair of the Board of Trustees of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and has served as the church’s official photographer for the past decade. A television and documentary film producer, Gore heads his own New York-based production company.
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Photographer Gore, a member of New York's famous Abyssinian Baptist Church, brings love and reverence to this project. The church was founded in Harlem in 1808, when black New Yorkers were only barely tolerated at white churches, and it immediately took up blacks' social and political concerns. From abolition to civil rights to economic and racial justice, it has remained activist. The most famous of Abyssinian's pastors, the...
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- PublisherHarry N. Abrams
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 158479027X
- ISBN 13 9781584790273
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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We'Ve Come This Far: a Photographic Journal of the Abyssinian Baptist Church
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The author, official photographer and Chair of the historic Harlem based Abyssinian Baptist Church, documents the daily routines, weekly worship, and dramatic events in the lives of the church's congregation. introduction by the late Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III. Tribute by The Rev. Jessie Jackson. 144 pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-1676068313675
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We've Come This Far: Abyssinian Baptist Church A Photographic Journal
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