The Black Baptist Experience in Canada - Paperback

by Gordon L. Heath (Editor), Dudley A. Brown (Editor), George Elliott Clarke (Foreword by)

This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important personages such as Washington Christian, Jennie Johnson, David George, William White, William Troy, and William M. Mitchell.

Author Biography

Gordon L. Heath is professor of Christian history as well as centenary chair in world Christianity at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario. His publications include Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World (2022) and The British Nation Is Our Nation: The BACSANZ Baptist Press and the South African War, 1899-1902 (2017).



Dudley A. Brown is a McMaster Divinity College graduate and served as principal in the Waterloo Region District School Board for many years.