Most Southern blacks belonged to the African Methodist Episcopal and Baptist churches. Along with settled ministers, a number of itinerant preachers like the Rev. Thomas H. Jones also tended to the faithful.

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"Rev. Thomas H. Jones Will Preach," broadside, c. 1867.
(The Amistad Foundation, Simpson Collection)

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