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Allen, Richard

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Allen, Richard (1760–1831)

US Methodist minister and church founder. Allen established a separate Methodist church for African-Americans in 1794, becoming the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816. He led the African African Methodist Episcopal Church until his death, developing it as a force for social and civil activism.

Born into slavery, Allen gained his freedom when he converted his owner to Methodism. After educating himself, he was accepted as a Methodist minister in 1874, but he encountered prejudice within the Church and, after calls to institute segregation, led his black parishioners to form a Free African Society in 1787. Allen was a strong patriot, and he denounced the notion of sending African-Americans to colonize in Africa.



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