Shiloh Baptist Church aka Trinity Church School - Credits and Research Sources

Prepared by: Michael J. Simpson, M.A., A.M.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Downing, Antoinette, and Vincent Scully, The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1915, (American Legacy Press: New York, NY 1982)

Jeter, Rev. Henry, Historical sketch of the Shiloh Baptist Church at Newport, R.I., and the pastors who have served, (BW Pearce: Newport, RI 1891)

Jeter, Rev. Henry, Twenty-five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History, (Remington Printing Co: Providence, RI 1901)

Kelley, Edmond, A Family Redeemed from Bondage; Being Rev. Edmond Kelley, (the Author,) His Wife, and Four Children, (Damrell and Moore: New Bedford, MA 1851)

Kinealy, Christine, Black Abolitionists in Ireland, (Routledge: New York, NY 2020)

Mason, George Champlin, Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island: 1698-1821, (Evans Printing Co: Philadelphia, PA 1890)

Morgan, John Hill, Gilbert Stuart; an illustrated descriptive list of his work, (William Edwin Rudge: New York, NY 1926)

Steward, Rowena, A Heritage Discovered: Blacks in Rhode Island, (Rhode Island Black Heritage Society: Providence, RI 1976)

Young Armstead, Mary Beth, Lord, Please Don’t Take Me in August: African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930, (Univ. Illinois Press: Champaign, IL 1999)

Youngken, Richard C., African Americans in Newport: An Introduction to the Heritage of African Americans in Newport, Rhode Island, 1700-1945, (Newport Historical Society: Newport, RI 1998)

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