The sons of Allen
By: Horace Talbert ; together with a sketch of the rise and progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio
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: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American clergy; Clergy; History; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Wilberforce University
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Begins with a brief history of Bishop Richard Allen, the slave who bought his own freedom and went on to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816. Two essays praise the A.M.E. Church for its role in African American progress and for the itinerant system of the Church. The bulk of the book offers biological sketches of 120 prominent Church members and  concludes with a history of Wilberforce University from 1856 through the next half-century.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

Includes "Wilberforce University, her rise and progress": p. 263-283.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: The sons of Allen / by Rev. Horace Talbert, M.A. ; together with a sketch of the rise and progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. Xenia, Ohio : the Aldine Press, 1906. 286 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Includes index.

Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.

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