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Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831) was a minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States.
May 10, 2021 · In 2008, Richard Newman and NYU Press published an acclaimed biography of Allen — Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church and the Black Founding Fathers.
Richard Allen (born February 14, 1760, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [U.S.]—died March 26, 1831, Philadelphia) was the founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a major American denomination.
Jun 9, 2021 · He was then elected Bishop. Allen spent the remainder of his life tending his station on the Underground Railroad, along with his wife Sarah Bass. He also worked with community leaders to open schools for African Americans. His life’s work established ways African Americans (both freed and enslaved) could organize, learn, and help one another.
Apr 22, 2021 · His story is told most extensively in Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard S. Newman, one of the best biographies I’ve read so far this year.
Oct 11, 2010 · Allen was appointed bishop. In major cities, both Northern and Southern, blacks elected to form their own, separate denominations.
Richard Allen and his associate Absalom Jones were the leaders of the black Methodist community in Philadelphia in 1793 when a yellow fever epidemic broke out. Many people, black and white, were...
Feb 26, 2008 · Allen—a former slave who bought his freedom during the American Revolution—became one of the first major black activists, one of the first black authors to copyright an anti-slavery pamphlet and the first to write a eulogy of President George Washington.
Apr 14, 2021 · Bishop Richard Allen: Apostle of Freedom. Produced by Dr. Mark Tyler, this documentary looks at the life of Bishop Richard Allen featuring voices from his family, the AME Church,...
Richard Allen. 1760-1831. The founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was born a slave in Philadelphia. After purchasing his own freedom as a young man, he joined St. George’s Methodist Church, from which in 1787 he led a dramatic withdrawal of black members.
