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In 1876 the school was incorporated as the Richmond Institute only to be reincorporated as the Richmond Theological Seminary in 1886 after it became the central college for advanced theological training of Black Baptist ministers in the South.
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In 1870, the National Theological Institute was absorbed by the ABHMS, which carried on its work in Augusta and Richmond, and merged operations in Washington into its
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Grundman, Adolph (Jan 1978). "Northern Baptists and the Founding of Virginia Union University: The Perils of Paternalism".
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was hired as an instructor the first year. Both Dr. Colver and Dr. Ryland resigned after one year, and in 1868,
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of Washington, DC was forming schools for ministerial training of freedmen in Washington and
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to form a school in Richmond, VA, which commenced in
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