Digital Library of Georgia: Reconstruction-Era Methodist Episcopal Church conference journals now available freely online in the Digital Library of Georgia

Digital Library of Georgia: Reconstruction-Era Methodist Episcopal Church conference journals now available freely online in the Digital Library of Georgia. “The collection is comprised of bound conference journals dating from 1867 to 1939, produced by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), a Northern church that established missions in Georgia during the Reconstruction Era, working closely with the Freedman’s Aid Society to find schools and colleges for the formerly enslaved while integrating the then-separate Black and white churches into the same conference. MEC churches were established in both rural and urban areas throughout the state.”