Absalom Jones, co-founder and first pastor of Philadelphia's African Methodist Episcopal Church, preached a sermon on that day, in which he proposed that the day "be set apart every year ...

Rev. Jeffrey Leath Absalom Jones did not earn his freedom until the age of 38. As a child he was a servant in his master's house, where he learned to read. In 1770, at age 23, he wed fellow slave ...

click image for close-up The most widely recognized image of the Reverend Absalom Jones, completed sometime prior to the winter of 1810, displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th ...

In response to Carey's libel against their community, which by then was already in a fourth edition, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones published A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People ...

And that is what led to Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and others leaving St. George's and founding what became the A.M.E. Church. In 1830, right before Allen dies, he hosts the first colored ...

Established by Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and other free blacks in 1787, the Society's purpose was "to support one another in sickness, and for the benefit of their widows and fatherless children." ...

Cn. Dr. Donald Kortright Davis, Professor of Theology at Howard University. With wisdom and conviction, Canon Davis challenged the congregation to face today’s struggles with “a compassionate heart, a ...

Absalom Jones did not earn his freedom until the age of 38. As a child he was a servant in his master's house, where he learned to read. In 1770, at age 23, he wed fellow slave Mary. The two ...