Question: Who started the Bethel branch of the religion founded by the black community in the city that used to be the US capitol?

<P0-S0> The church was organized by African - American members of St. George's Methodist Church who walked out due to racial segregation in the worship services. <P0-S1> On October 12, 1794, Reverend Robert Blackwell announced that the congregation was received in full fellowship in the Methodist Episcopal Church. <P0-S2> In 1816 Rev Richard Allen brought together other black Methodist congregations from the region to organize the new African Methodist Episcopal Church denomination. <P0-S3> Mother Bethel was one of the first African - American churches in the United States, dedicated July 29, 1794, by Bishop Francis Asbury. <P0-S4> He was elected bishop of this denomination. <P0-S5> After the American Civil War, its missionaries went to the South to help freedmen and planted many new churches in the region. <SEP> <P1-S0> Prior to establishing the nation's capital in Washington, D.C., the United States Congress and its predecessors had met in Philadelphia (Independence Hall and Congress Hall), New York City (Federal Hall), and a number of other locations (York, Pennsylvania; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland; and Nassau Hall in Princeton, New Jersey). <P1-S1> In September 1774, the First Continental Congress brought together delegates from the colonies in Philadelphia, followed by the Second Continental Congress, which met from May 1775 to March 1781. <SEP> <P2-S0> The state government left Philadelphia in 1799, and the federal government was moved to Washington, DC in 1800 with completion of the White House and Capitol. <P2-S1> The city remained the young nation's largest with a population of nearly 50,000 at the turn of the 19th century; it was a financial and cultural center. <P2-S2> The free black community also established many schools for its children, with the help of Quakers. <P2-S3> New York City soon surpassed Philadelphia in population, but with the construction of roads, canals, and railroads, Philadelphia became the first major industrial city in the United States. <P2-S4> Before 1800, its free black community founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent black denomination in the country, and the first black Episcopal Church. <SEP> <P3-S0> black mark production (founded 1991) is an independent record label originally based in berlin, later on with offices in stockholm, toronto and new york city etc. <P3-S1> black mark productions today is a worldwide operating business placed in villa hammerheart, bruzaholm, sweden, that specializes in extreme metal releases, perhaps best known for its close connection to quorthon, leader of the defining black metal band bathory until his death in 2004. as quorthon himself has stated several times, it was often speculated that he had something to do with the business and operation of black mark productions, except for the concept and name of the label, which would be referenced in the title of the 1987 release "under the sign of the black mark". <P3-S2> quorthon received permission from the tyfon grammofon label - which was owned by börje "boss" forsberg and featured bathory - to use his own proxy-label on all bathory albums, along with a unique 666-x serial number, starting with the self-titled debut album from 1984, but the label wasn't founded as a separate entity before 1991. who did found it remains disputed, but many point to boss forsberg. <SEP> <P4-S0> by that time, the majority of black people in the united states were native-born, so the use of the term "african" became problematic. <P4-S1> though initially a source of pride, many blacks feared that the use of african as an identity would be a hindrance to their fight for full citizenship in the us. <P4-S2> they also felt that it would give ammunition to those who were advocating repatriating black people back to africa. <P4-S3> in 1835, black leaders called upon black americans to remove the title of "african" from their institutions and replace it with "negro" or "colored american". <P4-S4> a few institutions chose to keep their historic names, such as the african methodist episcopal church. <P4-S5> african americans popularly used the terms "negro" or "colored" for themselves until the late 1960s.