Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A.M.E. Church
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Free African Americans; Slaves; African American clergy; Clergy; Methodist Church; Circuit riders; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Life of Rev. Thomas W. Henry.; North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed April 21, 2004)

Born in 1794 in St. Mary's County, Maryland, Thomas Henry was a slave until after his master's death and he had reached twenty-one years of age. Raised in the Catholic faith, as a young adult he worked for a German Methodist who was kind to him. As a free man he felt called to be a Methodist minister where he did preach for a short time. When one church refused to let him preach, he changed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The rest of the narrative tells of the different churches he ministered to on his circuit and some of the people he met.

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Transcribed from photocopy of: Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A.M.E. Church. [Baltimore : s.n., 1872]. 56 p. Caption title: Life of Rev. Thomas W. Henry

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