a mere kentucky of a place: the elkhorn association and the commonwealth’’s first baptists

KEITH HARPER is senior professor of Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Changing Perceptions of Baptist Identity and Rescue the Perishing: Selected Letters from Annie Armstrong and Other Writings. He coedited the essay collection Between Fetters and Freedom: African American Baptists since Emancipation.