Craven County, NC - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Blacks in New Bern founded the first African Methodist Episcopal 
Zion church in the South. In April, 1864, the Black congregation 
of Andrew Methodist Episcopal Chapel joined the African Methodist 
Episcopal Zion Conference and renamed their church St. Peter's. 
They were led in this change by the Reverend (later Bishop) James 
Walker Hood, who was sent to New Bern by A.M.E. Zion officials in 
New England in response to a request by the Andrew Chapel 
congregation. Hood remained for a time as pastor of St. Peter's 
and subsequently became one of the state's most active and 
influential Black men.

Information taken from "James City, A Black Community in North 
Carolina 1863-1900" by Joe A. Mobley.

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