tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post2130226776993812974..comments2024-03-28T04:13:55.692-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Baptism Songs & Chants From Mt Olive # 2 Independent Baptist Church, Trinidad Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-48840668649111907282015-10-04T17:44:39.105-04:002015-10-04T17:44:39.105-04:00For what it's worth, I knew nothing about the ...For what it's worth, I knew nothing about the 19th century connection between African Americans and the Trinidad Baptist church until I began this research. <br /><br />This information is quite interesting to me, in part, because I'm African American, and in part because my maternal grandfather Samuel N. Banfield was from Trinidad. He and his Bajan wife and children immigrated to New Jersey in the 1920s. My mother and two of her brothers were born in the USA. <br /><br />As it turned out, my grandfather was the head deacon of the Baptist church that I grew up in in the 1950s. He was also a leader in the Black Baptist association in that county, if not that state. However, if he had been affiliated with the Independent Baptist in Trinidad, the Baptist church service that I experienced in the 1950s to date (when I visit that city) was/is very far from any shouting,move to the Holy Spirit kind of service.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com