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Bishop RICHARD Alan founder of the AME Church

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Born a slave in 1760, in Philadelphia, Richard Allen grew up in Delaware close enough to his master to be converted by Allen’s boyhood preaching. Obviously, this freedom did not include blacks even though a freedman was who Richard Allen became by buying his freedom for $2,000.

In 1816, Richard Allen and some other Africans were ordained elders by Bishop Asbury and Richard Allen became the first Bishop of what had begun to become The African Methodist Episcopal Connection. 

The works of promoting freedom and progress by some of the followers of Allen are recorded in the Journal of Christian Education of the AME Church.

For more on the African Methodist Episcopal faith tradition, visit the website https://www.ame-church.com/