Richard J. Boles > Quotes

“Changing attitudes about race in churches after 1820 halted and then reversed the expansion of interracial churches that had coexisted alongside separate black churches and, as a result, churches were on the frontline of creating and supporting segregation in antebellum northern society.”
― Richard J. Boles, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North

“Thousands of African Americans and hundreds of American Indians publicly participated in and affiliated with predominantly white churches in New England and Mid-Atlantic regions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The history of these churches and our perspective on them, however, have been whitewashed.”
― Richard J. Boles, Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North