Identifier: 25822752.4742.emory.edu
Title: Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race (electronic resource): embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Haley, James T Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Mind and matter Settle, William B., former owner. GEU Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, former owner. GEU
Subjects: African Americans African Americans African Americans
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Haley & Florida
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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copal Church. Organization. The A. M. E. Church was born in restless and feverish times, andis, therefore, the natural product of its age. The period whichgave it birth was one of wonderful changes and of relentless opposi-tion to every form of oppression, whether ecclesiastical, political,social or intellectual. It witnessed the uprising of the people againstthe abuse of feudalism and the divine riehts of kine-s, and, withal,one of the grandest struggles of human history for the inalienablerights of the people—the right of life, liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness; the great intellectual throbbings and deep heart impulsesof a generation and an a^e that saw the culmination of centuries ofstruggle for civil and religious liberty. The repeating at every fireside, from every pulpit and platform,in every school-house, and in every newspaper, the famous Declara-tion of Independence, All men are created free and equal ; thepealing forth of the peans of victorv by the Old Liberty Bell over
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Zm^mnmn^r^S^^^^^^^m^^^^^ St. John A. M. E. Church, Nashville. Tenn. 436 AFUOAMERTCAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. British tyranny, and the shouts of freedom everywhere upon the air,by the American people, all served to awaken in Allen and his com-peers the spirit not only of civil but religious liberty. They heardall around them the triumphant shouts of victory over oppression,while in Gods house the iron heel of injustice, of discrimination, ofinhumanity, reigned. The spirit of religious revolution seized them, and they resolvedto have not only civil, but religious liberty. In the midst, therefore,of these transitional and multiplying events, the record informs, onApril 9, 1S16, Rev. Richard Allen, Jacob Taspsico, Clayton Dur-ham, James Champion and Thomas Webster, of Philadelphia, Pa. ;Daniel Coker, Richard Williams, Henry Hayden, Stephen Hill, Ed-ward Williamson, and Nicholas Gailliard, of Baltimore, Md. ; PeterSpencer, of Wilmington, Del.; Jacob Marsh, Edward Jackson, andWilliam Andrews, of Attl

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