Andrew Bryan

Biography

Andrew Bryan (1737–1812) founded Bryan Street African Baptist Church, affectionately called the Mother Church of Black Baptists, and First African Baptist Church and First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia, the first black Baptist churches to be established in America. Bryan was formerly enslaved by Jonathan Bryan. Andrew Bryan was born in 1737 in Goose Creek, South Carolina, to slave parents.

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