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词条 James McLemore
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For the Louisiana politician of the 1950s, see James M. McLemore

James McLemore (1782–1834) was a white Baptist minister in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a leader of the Alabama Baptist Association and founder of a number of churches. He is known also for having an African American associate minister, the slave Caesar Blackwell.

Biography

James McLemore preached in the Elam Church in Jones County, Georgia, which became a member of the Ocmulgee Baptist Association in 1810. He moved to Montgomery by way of the Federal Road[2] where he founded the Antioch Baptist Church (organized on June 5, 1818),[2] one of four churches that went on to form the Alabama Baptist Association (ABA).[3] At the time, slavery and, more specifically, slave membership in Baptist churches, was becoming a serious matter of contention; the Ocmulgee Baptist Association had resolved, citing Ephesians 6:9 and Colossians 4:1, that slaves were to be treated "with humanity and justice", a decision which according to Gary Burton, pastor of Pintlala Baptist Church, Hope Hull, Alabama, was to have a great influence on McLemore's future with a black associate minister.[2] McLemore, who built a reputation as a "famous white evangelist",[4] founded three of the four churches that made up the ABA—in addition to Antioch, he founded the Elim (also known as Old Elam, June 19, 1819) and Bethel churches (February 13, 1819).[5] He was described as a "holy man and zealous herald of the truth, although afflicted in body".[6]

McLemore is known also as the preacher who owned the wife and child of Caesar Blackwell, a slave who had been bought by the ABA and became McLemore's associate minister at the Antioch Church.[7] After his death, the execution of his will was contested in the Alabama Supreme Court; specifically, how two of McLemore's slaves were to be distributed among children "of the whole blood" and those "of the half blood" was challenged, with the court deciding that those "of the whole blood" were to be favored.[8] The McLemore bible, more than a hundred years old, was read from at a ceremony celebrating the continued unity of the four original Baptist churches in 1923.[5] The latter's family continues to be a prominent family in Montgomery:[5] the campus of Auburn University at Montgomery is built on 500 acres of the former McLemore plantation.[9]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://strongfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I22005&tree=STR06|title=James McLemore, IV (1782 - 1834)|publisher=McLemore-Strong Genealogy|accessdate=30 June 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/aha/markers/montgomery.html |title=Alabama Historical Association Marker Program: Montgomery County |date=7 January 2013 |publisher=Alabama Historical Association |accessdate=30 June 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714132530/http://www.archives.state.al.us/aha/markers/montgomery.html |archivedate=14 July 2014 |df= }}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Charles Reagan|title=Religion in the South|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dGWfmzAnJsUC&pg=PA56|publisher=UP of Mississippi|isbn=9781617034695|page=56}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Woodson|first=Carter Godwin|title=The History of the Negro Church|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38963/38963.txt|date=1921|publisher=Associated Publishers|location=Washington, DC}}
5. ^{{cite journal|year=2012|last=Burton|first=Gary P.|title=The founding four churches: an overview of Baptist beginnings in Montgomery County, Alabama: the year was 1923, and Baptists of Alabama were in a celebratory mood|journal=Alabama Baptist Historian|publisher=|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+founding+four+churches%3A+an+overview+of+Baptist+beginnings+in...-a0290734243}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Blue|first=Matthew Powers|title=The Works of Matthew Blue: Montgomery's First Historian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GlPUCLma3JoC&pg=PA276|year=2010|publisher=NewSouth Books|isbn=9781588380319|page=276}}
7. ^{{cite book|last=Flynt|first=Wayne|title=Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cm41b65DOEMC&pg=PA45|accessdate=29 June 2014|year=1998|publisher=U of Alabama P|isbn=9780817309275|pages=45–47}}
8. ^{{cite book|title=Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XasKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA688|year=1846|publisher=West Publishing Company|pages=688–91}}
9. ^{{cite book|title=Faculty Handbook|publisher=Auburn University at Montgomery|page=1}}
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7 : 1782 births|1834 deaths|Southern Baptist ministers|People from Granville County, North Carolina|People from Montgomery, Alabama|Baptists from Alabama|Baptists from North Carolina

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