covered in tar.9 If the place of blacks in the building had to be regulated, their place at the table certainly did. In the segregated churches, it was a regular feature that blacks would have to wait to take communion after all the whites had already gone (clearly in violation of 1 Corinthians 11:21). Black Christians reacted differently to the obvious violations of brotherly love. Some submitted to the ignominy, some simply left, some left in groups to form their own churches. In November 1787, a group of blacks organized to resist newly segregated pews in St. George’s Methodist Episcopal
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