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 ...

"Absalom (negro slave to Mr. Wynkoop) and Mary (Do. to S. King)" were married by Mr. Duché. The Wynkoops and the Kings were neighbors in Philadelphia, and both families worshipped at St. Peter's.

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 ...

Established by Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and other free blacks in 1787, the Society's purpose was "to support one another in sickness, and for the benefit of their widows and fatherless children." ...