George Washington William (1849-1891) was a graduate of Newton Theological Seminary (1874) and the Pastor of Boston's Twelfth Baptist Church from 1874-1876. After seven years of research he authoredA History of the Negro Race in American from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers and as Citizens. The work in two volumes of over 500 pages each was an extraordinary historiography, the first and most important of its time. during the time he was the Pastor of Twelfth Baptist he wroteThe History of Twelfth Baptist Church from 1840-1874.
