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The sons of Allen

Summary: Begins with a brief history of Bishop Richard Allen, the slave who bought his own freedom and went on to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816. Two essays praise the A.M.E. Church for its role in African American progress and for the itinerant system of the Church. The bulk of the book offers biological sketches of 120 prominent Church members and concludes with a history of Wilberforce University from 1856 through the next half-century.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    Electronic data (1 file : ca. 450 kilobytes).
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    1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes "Wilberforce University, her rise and progress": pages 263-283.
Text scanned (OCR) by Andrew Leiter. Images scanned by Andrew Leiter. Text encoded by Richard Musselwhite and Jill Kuhn.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.
Title from electronic title page.
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from: The sons of Allen / by Rev. Horace Talbert, M.A. ; together with a sketch of the rise and progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. Xenia, Ohio : the Aldine Press, 1906. 286 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Includes index.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject:
Allen, Richard 1760-1831
African Methodist Episcopal Church Clergy Biography
African Methodist Episcopal Church History 19th century
Wilberforce University History 19th century
African American clergy Biography
African Americans Biography

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