{"id":84731,"date":"2020-04-27T02:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84731"},"modified":"2020-01-11T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T19:14:59","slug":"an-african-church-owning-its-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/an-african-church-owning-its-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Semi-Weekly Mississippian<\/em> [Jackson, MS], April 27, 1860<\/p>\n<p>The African Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga., owns its minister, the congregation having bought him from his former master. The members of the Church, who are mostly, if not all slaves themselves, contribute $1,000 a year for the support of their &#8220;chattel&#8221; pastor and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], April 27, 1860 The African Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga., owns its minister, the congregation having bought him from his former master. The members of the Church, who are mostly, if not all slaves themselves, contribute $1,000 a year for the support of their &#8220;chattel&#8221; pastor and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}