Author: Peter Williams
Alternate names: Peter Williams African-American Episcopal priest and abolitionist; Williams, Peter; بيتر وليامز; পিটার উইলিয়ামস; Петер Уильямс; Peter Williams, Jr.; Peter Williams Jr.; Peter Williams Jr (est. 1786 - 17 Oct 1840); Williams, Peter Jr
Title: Jr
Born: 1780? or 1786
Died: 1840
Bio: Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) was an African-American Episcopal priest, the second ordained in the United States and the first to serve in New York City. He was an abolitionist who also supported free black emigration to Haiti, the black republic that had achieved independence in 1804 in the Caribbean. In the 1820s and 1830s, he strongly opposed the American Colonization Society's efforts to relocate free blacks to the colony of Liberia in West Africa. -Wikipedia