Facts: - language: english - caption: elisha 1888 autobiography winfield green , from the frontispiece of his - death date: 1893 - birth date: c. 1815 - name: elisha winfield green - nationality: united states - image: elisha winfield green.jpg - birth place: bourbon county , kentucky - occupation: baptist leader Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of elisha winfield green .
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elisha winfield green -lrb- c. 1815 - 1893 -rrb- was a former slave who became a baptist leader in kentucky , us .for five years he was moderator of the consolidated baptist educational association , and he promoted the establishment of what is now the simmons college of kentucky .green suffered from racial intolerance all his life .in 1883 , when he was an elderly and respected minister , he was assaulted and beaten for failing to comply with a demand to give up his seat on a train .