The Trail of Blood

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The Trail of Blood is a pamphlet by Dr. James Milton Carroll, published posthumously, collecting a series of lectures given by Carroll over the history of Baptist churches.^{[citation needed]} Over sixty editions have been published since the first in 1931, and as of October, 2000, 2,255,000 copies have been printed worldwide.^{[citation needed]} The copyright to this text belongs to Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky.

In his pamphlet, Carroll attempts to show that modern Baptists are the continuance of a strain of Christianity that dates back to apostolic times. As part of this attempt, Carroll claims a descent by modern Baptists from such earlier groups as the Waldensians, the Cathari, the Paulicians, and the Donatists. Carroll's historical reasoning is followed by a number of other Baptist historians including G.H. Orchard, John T. Christian, Thomas Armitage, and David Benedict.^{[citation needed]}