Resource class Url Title Description Event Type Action Status Date Date Certainty Location Cause Outcome Source Related Event Primary Participant Freedom Status Enslaver Age Author Additional Participant Organization dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/884 1863-01-10, Unnamed, Religious Enslaved children attended Episcopal Sunday school at the Athens Town Hall. Partial Transcript: "On motion of Warden King, the use of the Town Hall was granted to the Episcopal church on Sunday evenings for the purpose of holding Sunday school for the colored children." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/517 Religious https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1863-01-14 525 839 | https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014669/1863-01-14/ed-1/seq-3/ Issue January 14, 1863; Page 3 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 714 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/823 1831, Unnamed, Religious (Communion) Enslaved persons that attended the Union Church, north of Athens, Georgia, took communion administered by Alonzo Church. Partial Transcript: "Then [Alonzo Church] dedicated Union Church; there was a very large attendance of negroes of the Baptist and Methodist persussions, and among them several colored preachers. The communion was administered by [Church] and it was remarkable fact, worthy of record, that these humble servants sat down at the Lord's table and partook of the elements." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/519 Religious: Communion https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1831 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 821 | Page 18 824 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 524 640 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/669 1860, Unnamed, Religious The enslaved people in Athens held their services at the Presbyterian Church and the Baptist Church. Partial Transcript: "The new Presbyterian Church was built in 1855, by Ross Crane at a cost of $10,000, and the Baptist church by Mr. Carlton in 1860. The negroes were permitted to hold their services in the old churches." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/517 Religious https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 670 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/166/mode/2up Page 166 670 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 782 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/605 1858-05, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Religious (Baptism) Holsey is baptised and fellowshipped by Reverend H. H. Parks at the Methodist church in Athens, Georgia. Partial Transcript: " I was taken into the church by Rev. Mr. Parks, and baptized and fellowshipped by his uncle, the Rev. H. H. Parks." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/518 Religious: Baptism https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1858-05 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 603 | 604 594 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001225938&view=1up&seq=26&skin=2021 Page 18 604 | 603 593 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 595 16 593 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/603 1858, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Religious Holsey converted to Christianity and became a member of the Methodist church in Athens, Georgia. Partial Transcript: "In 1858, in Athens, Ga., I was converted, and became a member of the Methodist church." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/517 Religious https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1858 525 604 | 605 594 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001225938&view=1up&seq=26&skin=2021 Page 18 604 | 605 593 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 595 16 593