Daniel Alexander Payne:  close-up portrait of a black man, wearing a dark-colored clergy suit.  Shoulders slightly turned away from the camera; face directed toward the camera, and eyes gazed at the camera.

Daniel Alexander Payne (Bishop Payne). Creation: 1860-1869. Photographer: Unknown. Collection: Cartes de visite. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Daniel Alexander Payne

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Daniel Alexander Payne

Born to free Black parents in South Carolina in 1811; opened Black children school in 1829; closed in 1835 at the passing of the South Carolina bill on Slaves and Free Persons of Color. Attended Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1835. First African American ordained in the Lutheran Church in Fordsboro, New York. Delivered "Slavery Brutalizes Man" speech at his ordination.  Joined the African Methodist Episcopal in 1843. Became a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in 1853; first Black American president of a college, Wilberforce University in 1856; first Black man leading the Methodist Ecumenical Conference. Died in 1893.

 

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