Richard Allen

Richard Allen (1760–1831) was an African American Methodist minister, abolitionist, and writer who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.

Absalom Jones: Absalom Jones was an African American clergyman and abolitionist who co-founded the Free African Society and founded the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas. Jones helped Allen establish the Free African Society before their religious paths diverged.
Delaware: Delaware is a U.S. state on the Atlantic coast, where Richard Allen was born enslaved. Allen was born enslaved in Delaware before being sold with his family.
Abolitionism: Abolitionism is the movement to end slavery and secure freedom for enslaved people. Allen’s public work opposed slavery and supported Black freedom.
African Methodist Episcopal Church: The African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historically Black Methodist denomination founded in Philadelphia in 1816. Allen organized the denomination and became its first bishop.
Daniel Coker: Daniel Coker was an African American minister who helped organize the African Methodist Episcopal Church and became its first missionary to Africa. Coker joined Allen in organizing the church and served as its first bishop after Allen.
Methodism: Methodism is a Protestant Christian movement that emerged from eighteenth-century Anglican revivalism. Methodist preaching shaped Allen’s conversion and early religious work.
African American Christianity: African American Christianity comprises Christian traditions and institutions shaped by Black communities in the United States. Allen’s ministry helped establish an independent Black Christian tradition.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historically Black Methodist denomination organized in New York in the early nineteenth century. It was a separate Black Methodist denomination, not the church Allen founded.
Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, writer, and orator who escaped slavery and became a leading advocate for Black freedom. Douglass later carried forward abolitionist arguments in a national movement Allen helped shape.
St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church: St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic congregation in Philadelphia associated with early American Methodism. Allen preached there but resisted racial segregation imposed on Black worshippers.

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