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Richard Allen

(1760-1831)

Who Was Richard Allen?

Minister, educator and writer Richard Allen was born into slavery. He later converted to Methodism and bought his freedom. Fed up with the treatment of African American parishioners at the St. George Episcopal congregation, he eventually founded the first national Black church in the United States, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was also an activist and abolitionist whose ardent writings would inspire future visionaries.

Early Years

Minister, educator and writer Allen was born into slavery presumably in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 1760. (As with other details surrounding Allen's life, there have been some questions as to the place of his birth, with certain sources asserting that he was born in Delaware.) Known as "Negro Richard," he and his family were sold by Benjamin Chew to a Delaware farmer, Stokeley Sturgis, sometime around 1768.

Allen converted to Methodism at the age of 17, after hearing a white itinerant Methodist preacher rail against slavery. His owner, who had already sold

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Richard Allen (abolitionist)

Abolitionist

Richard Allen
Allen pictured in his biography
Born	1803 Harolds Cross
Died	1886
Nationality	British
Known for	Abolitionist
Spouse	Ann (born Webb)

Richard Allen (1803–1886) was a draper, a philanthropist and abolitionist in Dublin. Allen raised £20,000 to help the Irish famine by writing letters to America.^[1]

Life

Allen was born to Edward and Ellen Allen at Harold's Cross near Dublin. He was the second of fifteen children.^[2]

Allen was an orthodox Quaker and his business was in textiles but his interests were in reform, temperance and the abolition of slavery. He married Ann Webb in 1828.

In 1837, Allen was one of three founding members, with James Haughton and Richard Davis Webb, of the Hibernian Antislavery Association. This was not the first antislavery association but it was acknowledged to be the most active.^[3] Allen served as the secretary of this association.

Allen founded the Irish Temperance and Literary Gazette and used this publicati

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Richard Allen (1760-1831) was born a slave in Philadelphia but was sent with his parents and three siblings to a new home in Dover, Delaware in 1767. When he was still a child, Allen's parents and a sibling were sold away from him. Later, after hearing Methodist sermons, Allen converted to Christianity and began sharing the gospel with others. His master became one of his converts and allowed him and his brother to hire themselves out and purchase their freedom in 1781. Allen returned to Philadelphia, and for the next several years, he worked odd jobs while educating himself and preaching in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Although he had been accepted as a Methodist preacher at the first General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1784, he and other black parishioners at St. George's Church withdrew from the church because of the discrimination they experienced there. They formed the Free African Society in 1787, and in 1794, Allen organized a black Methodist church called Bethel. In 1816, Bethel and sixteen other black congregations from the northe