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African Methodist Episcopal Church
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 4023 Includes: Bibliography | Bibliography[This entry contains two subentries dealing with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, from its founding in the mid-eighteenth century through 1895. The first article provides a discussion of its relationship with its parent church and reasons for its breakaway, while the second article also includes discussion of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the role of both these institutions in African American society.] Methodism arose in England as part of a movement within the established Anglican Church. It was carried to North America by the great English evangelists John Wesley in 1735 and George Whitefield in 1738. Systematic Methodist preaching began in the mid-Atlantic colonies in the 1760s; following the development of the system of circuits ...
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Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 1426 Includes: BibliographyThe long and illustrious history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church dates back to the eighteenth century. The founder Richard Allen, a former slave who had been able to purchase his freedom and was an ordained Methodist minister, was assigned to Saint George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, where he was allowed to preach to blacks. When in November 1787 several black church members, including Absalom Jones, were pulled from their knees while praying, all the black worshippers left Saint George's to form a church of their own. The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was established in Philadelphia in 1793 and opened in July 1794. In 1816, Richard Allen united black Methodist congregations from the greater Philadelphia area, founding the African Methodist Episcopal Church; he was elected the first bishop during ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 1286 Includes: BibliographyIndependent African American Methodist organization dedicated to black self-improvement and Pan-Africanist ideals. In 1786, Richard Allen, an African American Methodist, began serving as a lay preacher at St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church, a Philadelphia congregation where both whites and blacks worshiped. Allen was a former slave from Delaware who had joined the Evangelical Wesleyan movement because of its work against slavery and he eventually became a licensed Methodist preacher. The efforts of Allen—along with those of Absalom Jones, another African American lay preacher—brought a large influx of blacks to the church, and a balcony was constructed to accommodate the growing congregation. In November 1787 (some sources indicate a date of 1792), Allen, Jones, and other black worshipers were ...
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