certainty, that the evolution of plantation missions began as independent slave plantation owners were very reluctant to permit an evangelistic program with the utilization of black Baptist preachers. However, there were some exceptions to the general order of things on certain plantations. For instance, there was one good example of a more liberal attitude, despite legal codes restricting congregations of blacks and the ministry of black preachers, on the part of a plantation owner in North Carolina.
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