Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-147) and index.
Contents:
The formative years : 1811-1837 -- The transition years : 1837-1856 -- The Wilberforce experience : 1856-1876 -- The waning years : 1877-1893 -- Daniel Alexander Payne : recuperating his legacy.
Summary:
This is a biography of Daniel Alexander Payne, a free person of color in nineteenth century Charleston, South Carolina. He was an educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet, historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Upon his election as president of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1863, he became the first African American to lead an institution of higher education in the United States.
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