Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 501

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(RELIGION.) BAPTIST. WELCOME, National Baptist Convention, Columbus, Ohio, 1909. Textile pennant from the National Baptist Convention, Held at Columbus, Ohio, in 1909, 17-1/2 x 10-7/8 inches; some very slight fraying to the delicate fabric at the bottom right; attached to a piece of dowel, 23-1/2 inches long. In the center, is a circular vignette (6 inches in diameter) of an African American couple, immersed in water up to their waists. Columbus, 1909
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An extraordinary survival. The vignette in the center of the pennant shows a globe within which a couple is being baptized. Above them is the following: "National Baptist Convention, Organized November 24, 1880 at Montgomery, Alabama." Across the vignette is the following Biblical quote from Mark 16:16 "He that believeth and is Baptized shall be saved. One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism." The National Baptist Convention in Ohio represents the amalgamation of three conventions: The Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, The National Convention of America, and The National Baptist Education Convention. These three bodies had joined together in 1895, and this pennant traces its roots to the earliest of these conventions in Alabama 1880. Two thousand people attended the 1909 convention.