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Article: Greene County and Wilberforce. (Ohio's historic Wilberforce University, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the underground railroad)(Follow the North Star, The Guiding Light of the Underground Railroad: Advertising Travel Supplement)
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- American Visions
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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Thirty years of research has shown me that in most cases, wherever there was an African Methodist Epispocal church before the Civil War, it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. From the late-18th-century inception of the church in Philadelphia under Richard Allen, it participated with others in protecting escaping slaves from the South. The church's efforts in this direction followed the geographical spread of its congregations around the country.
Allen and others who followed him--such as Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne, who later served as the president of Wilberforce University--gave their services widely, both literally and figuratively, because many of them ...
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