Webster County Churches

I came across this book on Amazon.com, and the sample page they were showing just happen to concern Webster County churches.  I found it interesting and wanted to include it here.  I would love to include more about Webster County Churches in the future.

Religion in Mississippi (Heritage of Mississippi Series, V. 2) by Randy J. Sparks, p. 98.  ©2001 by the Mississippi Historical Society

             Other slaves, however, recalled a more positive experience in the biracial churches, additional evidence that the egalitarian tradition continued in some churches throughout the antebellum period.  In a Webster County church, blacks “were allowed to go there and shout just like the white folks.”  Another ex-slave from Webster County said that “we was allus welcome” at the local church.  George Washington Miller described a Presbyterian church that had “pews for the white and for the black, and often the leading negro deacon ‘Uncle Dick’ sat in the pulpit.  Everybody liked him.  I remember preacher Reed, whom I thought almost was God hisself.”