Separate Baptists

Separate Baptists are Evangelical Baptists with origins in separatism during the First Great Awakening of the 18th century in the United States. The main Separate Baptist leader was Isaac Backus. The Separate Baptists later became part of the mainstream American Baptists (Regular Baptists), centered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Inspired by the passionate, revivalist preaching of Evangelical ministers like George Whitefield, they dissented from the American established churches and started to emphasize a personal connection with God and spiritually invigorating services, often being victims of religious intolerance.

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