Editing Primitive Baptists (section)

==History==
The controversy over whether churches or their members should participate in mission boards, Bible tract societies, and temperance societies led the Primitive Baptists to separate from other general Baptist groups that supported such organizations, and to make declarations of opposition to such organizations in articles like the ''Kehukee Association Declaration of 1827''.<ref name = "Mead1" /><ref name = Garrett212>{{cite book| title= Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study| last = Garrett | first = James Leo Jr. | author-link = James Leo Garrett Jr. | year = 2009 | publisher = [[Mercer University Press]]| isbn= 978-0-88146-129-9 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=epEHq0mTsKgC&pg=PA212 |page=212|access-date=2011-01-08}}</ref> The [[Kehukee Primitive Baptist Church]] released a proclamation that they rejected formal service institutions outside of [[Christian Church|the church]]. The declaration proposed that 
<blockquote>Upon examination, it was found that most of the churches had given their opinions; and after an interchange of sentiments among the members of this body, it was agreed that we discard all [[missionaries|Missionary Societies]], [[Bible Societies]] and [[seminary|Theological Seminaries]], and the practices heretofore resorted to for their support, in begging money from the public; and if any persons should be among us, as agents of any of said societies, we hereafter discountenance them in those practices; and if under a character of a minister of the gospel, we will not invite them into our pulpits; believing these societies and institutions to be the inventions of men, and not warranted from the word of God. We further do unanimously agree that should any of the members of our churches join the fraternity of [[Mason (Freemasonry)|Masons]], or, being members, continue to visit the [[Masonic Lodge|lodges]] and parades, we will not invite them to preach in our pulpits, believing them to be [[Anti-Masonry#Christian anti-Masonry|guilty of such practices]]; and we declare non-fellowship with them and such practices altogether.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/the-kehukee-declaration.pdf|title=The Kehukee Declaration of 1827}}</ref></blockquote>

The official split between "Old School" and "New School" Baptists occurred during a meeting at the Black Rock Church on September 28, 1832 in Butler, MD. This became known as the Black Rock Address.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morfe |first=Don |date=July 5, 2021 |title=Black Rock Particular Primitive Baptist Church - Butler MD |url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm14GPT_Black_Rock_Particular_Primitive_Baptist_Church_Butler_MD |access-date=June 28, 2022 |website=waymarking.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2022 |title=Black Rock Particular Primitive Baptist Church |url=https://primitivebaptistsermons.org/church-details.php?id=26 |access-date=June 28, 2022 |website=Primitive Baptist Sermons}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 28, 1832 |title=BLACK ROCK ADDRESS: MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND RESOLUTIONS DRAFTED BY THE PARTICULAR BAPTISTS, CONVENED AT BLACK ROCK, MARYLAND, SEPTEMBER 28, 1832 |url=http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/black-rock-address.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819090517/http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/black-rock-address.pdf |archive-date=August 19, 2007 |access-date=June 28, 2022 |website=Baptist Studies Online}}</ref>

Primitive Baptist churches arose in the mountainous regions of the [[Southern United States|American South]], where they are found in their greatest numbers.<ref name="Columbia" />{{Sfn | Crowley | 1998 | p = [https://books.google.com/books?id=6TTtLEXwYCUC&pg=PP17  xi]}}

African-American Primitive Baptist groups have been considered a unique category of Primitive Baptist. Approximately 50,000 African Americans are affiliated with African-American Primitive Baptist churches as of 2005.<ref name=Brackney457>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Noz7WtnOV-kC&pg=PA457 | pages=457–58| title=Historical Dictionary of the Baptists | last = Brackney | first = William H |author-link=William H. Brackney | year=2009 | publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5622-6}}</ref> Approximately 64,000 people were affiliated (as of 1995) with Primitive Baptist churches in the various other emergences of Primitive Baptists.<ref name=Brackney457/>

Since arising in the 19th century, the influence of Primitive Baptists has waned as "[[Missionary Baptists]] became the mainstream".<ref name = Garrett212 />