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Richard Allen

Founder of the AME Church

Black Church Institution-building, abolitionism, the right of Black people to worship as equals
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Combat
ATK 50
DEF 88
SPR 90
SPD 60
INT 92
Rank Bishop / Founder of the AME Church / Formerly enslaved
Domain Institution-building, abolitionism, the right of Black people to worship as equals
Alignment Holy / Black Methodist
Weakness Worked within Methodist polity rather than break entirely with the structure -- a strategic conservatism some Black radicals criticized
Key Act Born enslaved in Philadelphia in 1760. Bought his own freedom at twenty. Pulled from his knees at St. George's Methodist for sitting in the wrong pew (1787). Walked out, organized Free African Society, built Bethel AME, formally founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church on April 9, 1816 -- the first fully independent Black denomination in the United States
Source Allen, *The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Right Reverend Richard Allen* (1833)

“We will never separate ourselves voluntarily from the slave population in this country; they are our brethren by the ties of consanguinity, of suffering, and of wrong.” — Richard Allen


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