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“…provided psychic health for Blacks by assuring them that they would not always be oppressed in the "Egyptland" of the Jim Crow south [but] equipped Southern Blacks with an indigenous belief system for hastening and contributing to their own liberation." Caron (1996) Genealogy 2020, 4, x FOR PEER REVIEW 6 of 11 "…the Black South's religiosity… provided psychic health for Blacks by assuring them that they would not always be oppressed in the "Egyptland" of the Jim Crow south [but] equipped Southern Blacks with an indigenous belief system for hastening and contributing to their own liberation." Timothy P. Caron (1996) It is believed that this church is about 200 years old, and it is told that the Newton family was affiliated with it most of that time.…”

“…As I reconstructed the image of this photograph by adding a U.S. Black historical context to the Newton family history… "…the Black South's religiosity… provided psychic health for Blacks by assuring them that they would not always be oppressed in the "Egyptland" of the Jim Crow south [but] equipped Southern Blacks with an indigenous belief system for hastening and contributing to their own liberation." Timothy P. Caron (1996) It is believed that this church is about 200 years old, and it is told that the Newton family was affiliated with it most of that time. Most of the family who lived in Warsaw went to Clarkesville Baptist Church and are buried in the cemetery behind it on Effel Road, the street where the church is located in Warsaw, Virginia (Photograph: Circa 1997 courtesy of Phyllis Smith).…”