Mississippi Baptist Convention Board

[2] The Mississippi Baptist Association adopted 'articles of faith & gospel order',[3] and published their proceedings the following years with many references to Thomas Mercer and David Cooper.

The first Mississippi Baptist Convention lasted just five years, from February 1824, when it first met at Bogue Chitto Church in Pike County, to 1829, after meeting so much resistance that it was agreed that it be disbanded in 1828.

[8] In the same year, the convention expressed its opinion on the abolition of slavery, saying that it was an attempt "to detract from the social, civil, and religious privileges of the slave population".

The convention had reported in 1938 "that some few of our Churches, and some of our Methodist friends, have adopted the plan of holding separate meetings for the blacks; and that such a course is general attended with an increased interest among them".

[10] Women's societies were some of the largest financial supporters of the convention in the early 19th century.