Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance

Appendix

Appendix This preliminary chart shows the denominations of African American ministers who also participated in the Underground Railroad movement. Their role as ministers is not always recognized when their Underground Railroad work is being highlighted. Formerly Free Minister Denomination Location Date Enslaved? Mason Richard Allen (founder) AME Bishop Mother Bethel AME, Philadelphia 1816–1831 Y Y Duke William Anderson AME/Baptist Wood River, IL Amos Gerry Beman (son) AME Zion/Congregational Temple Street African Congregational, 1839–1857 New Haven, CT (later Dixwell Ave. Congregational) Jehiel Beman (father) AME Zion (Freedom Church) Cross Street, Middletown, CT/Boston 1830Morris Brown AME Bishop Charleston/ Mother Bethel, Philadelphia 1818–1844 ? Samuel E. Cornish (founder) Black Presbyterian First Colored Presbyterian Church, 1822 Y NY, NJ (later Shiloh) Alexander Crummell Episcopalian St. Matthew’s, NYC; RI, PA, DC 1842–1851 Y Moses Dickson AME Olive Chapel, Kirkwood, MO 1866 Y Amos N. Freeman Congregational The Abyssinian Church/Meetinghouse 1841–1851 Portland, ME Presbyterian Siloam Presbyterian, Brooklyn, NY 1852–1881 Henry Highland Garnet Presbyterian Liberty Street Presbyterian 1839–1848 Y Y Church, Troy NY Jamaica, WI 1852–1855 First Colored Presbyterian 1856–1864 (Shiloh) NYC Fifteenth Street Presbyterian, WDC 1864–1866 (founder) Grace Memorial Presbyterian, 1867–1868 Pittsburgh, PA John Glouster Black Presbyterian First African Presbyterian 1807–1822 Y (founder/father) Church, Philadelphia Jeremiah (son) Black Presbyterian Second African Presbyterian 1822 Y Church, Philadelphia John (son) Black Presbyterian Y Stephen (son) Black Presbyterian Third African Presbyterian 1844 Y Church, Philadelphia James (son) Black Presbyterian Baltimore 1849 Y Siloam Presbyterian, Brooklyn, NY also Buffalo Leonard Grimes Baptist Twelfth Baptist Church, Boston 1848–1874 (The Fugitive Slave Church) Prince Hall AME Boston Y Lemuel Haynes Congregationalist Rutland, VT 1785–1818 Joshiah Henson ME/AME/ Dresden, Ontario, CA 1828–1883 Y Y British Methodist Episcopal J. Theodore Holly Protestant Episcopal St. Luke’s, New Haven, CT 1856–1861 George Liele Baptist Georgia/Kingston, Jamaica 1772–1828 Y (Left with British 1783) Formerly Free Minister Denomination Location Date Enslaved? Mason Jermaine Loguen AME Zion Bishop Syracuse/Binghamton/Bath/ 1842–1872 Y Ithaca/Troy, NY William M. Mitchell Baptist Ohio and Teraulay (Bay) Street Baptist, Toronto, CA James Oliver AME Camden, NJ ? Benjamin Paul (brother) Baptist Albany, NY Abyssinian Baptist, NYC 1824 First African Baptist, Wilberforce, Canada 1831 Nathaniel Paul (brother) Baptist First African Baptist, Albany 1820 First African Baptist, Wilberforce, Canada 1831 Hamilton Street Baptist Church, Albany 1836 Thomas Paul, Sr. (brother) Baptist African Meeting House, Boston 1806 Y Abyssinian Baptist, NYC 1808 J. C. Pennington Congregational Temple Street African Congregational, 1837 (later Dixwell Ave.) New Haven, CT Talcott Street Church, Hartford 1840 Presbyterian Shiloh Church, NYC 1847 Y First Colored Presbyterian (Shiloh/ 1848–1856 Prince Street) William Paul Quinn AME Bishop United States and Canada 1817–1873 Y Charles B. Ray Congregational Bethesda Church, NYC 1845 Hiriam Revels (brother) AME Wylie Avenue Church, Pittsburgh, PA/ ca. 1845–1901 Richmond, IN also MD, IL, OH, TN, MO, KS Willis Revels (brother) AME Bethel AME, Indianapolis, IN also Lick 1842 Creek, IN/Quinn Chapel, Louisville, KY Christopher Rush AME Zion New York City 1822–1873 Peter Spencer (founder) African Union African Union Methodist Protestant 1813–1843 Y Y Methodist Church, Wilmington, DE Samuel Ringgold Ward Presbyterian/Congregational New York/Jamaica 1841–1866 Y Peter Williams, Sr. (father) AME Zion New York City 1798 Y Peter Williams, Jr. (son) Black Episcopalian St. Philip’s Episcopal, NYC 1818–1840 Hiram Wilson Colored Presbyterian Canada 1836 Thomas Woodson (father) AME Ohio Y Lewis (son) AME Pittsburgh 1830s Thomas, Jr. (son) AME Ohio John (son) AME Ohio Theodore S. Wright Presbyterian First Colored Presbyterian (Shiloh), NYC 1833–1847 ...