1788
- Andrew Bryan founds the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia, the first "permanent (African American) congregation in the nation".
- John Griffiths, an itinerant New England dancing master, publishes A Collection of the Newest and Most Fashionable Country Dances and Cotillions, the first collection of country dances in the United States.
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