How Did Richard Allen Influence The African American

Whereas our ancestors (not by choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil. – Richard Allen” This quote has a meaning of that African Americans have been in America for as long as we can remember. Richard Allen was an important black religious leader who paved the way during the 1700s. He led and founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church and The Free African Society. Allen was and still is the leading figure in events that produced the independent black church movement and is an influential figure to all African Americans today. Richard Allen was a slave-born in Philadelphia on February 14, 1760. He was owned

On September 3, 1783 he left Philadelphia and travelled to New Jersey to strive and preach the word of the gospel until spring 1784. He became acquainted with apostles Benjamin Abbot of West Jersey and Joshua Budd of East Jersey. In the year of 1784, Allen left to go back to Philadelphia for more labor work from East Jersey. He walked to a town twelve miles from Philadelphia called Radnor Township. There he found a couple that was very affectionate to him and took care of him. The couple asked him to preach on the Sabbath day, and that is what he did. He preached to a large congregation with a lot of different opinions, he stayed there for several weeks and opened many souls and awakened many hearts. When he left Radnor Township, he proceeded to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he found the people to be dead to religion, so he continued on to Little York where he met George Tess who loved the Lord. When he left there, Allen travelled to the State of Maryland where he met several people who served the Lord as he

The Free African Society was the first autonomous organization of free blacks in the United States. In the year of 1792, a racist incident during a Sunday service Allen and Jones got pulled off their knees from church officials during prayer. The reason being was because they were supposed to be in the balcony due to the new segregated seating policy. As the leaders of The Philadelphia Free African Society, Richard and Absalom began to network early with white donors such as, Dr. Benjamin Rush, in fundraising campaigns for black schools and churches. Neither Allen nor Jones felt that needed to be submissive to the racism they encountered on that Sunday. The Methodists were the first people that brought great tiding to the African American people. Richard was appointed minister of the African church in Philadelphia by a committee in 1793. He did not take up that offer because he was a Methodist minister, who only knew