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Kristofer Roberts

Kristofer Roberts joined the Association as a history intern in summer 2021 while pursuing his Ph.D. in history at the University of Alabama. His research interests include nineteenth-century America, religious history, and African American history. He received his bachelor’s degree from Samford University and a Master of Divinity from the Chandler School of Theology at Emory University.

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    The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C.

    The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington D.C. was founded in 1802, shortly after Washington D.C. became the federal seat of government.1 For Baptists in early America, religious liberty was a pillar of the faith, but one that did not fully extend to enslaved persons and free Black people within Baptist congregations. As a church just north