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- ↑ Religious bodies: 1916, Part 2 (United States Bureau of the Census, 1919), pp.517ff. Excerpt available at Google Books.
- ↑ Turner, Nicole Myers (2020). Soul liberty : the evolution of black religious politics in postemancipation Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-5524-6. OCLC 1142012122.