Allen went on to preach throughout South Carolina, New York, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, before settling in Philadelphia, where he dreamed of founding an African church. Absalom Jones did ...

click image for close-up The Register of St. Peter's Anglican Church records that on January 4, 1770. "Absalom (negro slave to Mr. Wynkoop) and Mary (Do. to S. King)" were married by Mr. Duché.

And that is what led to Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and others leaving St. George's and founding what became the A.M.E. Church. In 1830, right before Allen dies, he hosts the first colored ...

Absalom Jones, co-founder and first pastor of Philadelphia's African Methodist Episcopal Church, preached a sermon on that day, in which he proposed that the day "be set apart every year ...

click image for close-up The most widely recognized image of the Reverend Absalom Jones, completed sometime prior to the winter of 1810, displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th ...