We Have Assisted In Shaping History ....

Listed are only a (few) distinquished fellow African American , that change our world.

1. Richard Allen, Church Founder and Bishop, 1760-1831: The organizer and Bishop of tge African Methodist Episcopal Church,Richard All was born a slave in Philadelphia. In 1787, Allen led the movement to organize the Free African Society. Decouncing colonization in Africa,Allen started the first national movement for resetting the African Americans in Canada(1830).

James Armistead, American Spy: 1781, Armistead, a slave, was a valuable intelligence agent during the Revolution, assisting Lafayette by gathering information concerning British forces at Portsmouth,Virginia. For his work Armistead was emancipated by an act of the Virginia Legislature in 1786.

Absalom Jones, Minster: Rector of the first separate Protestant Episcopal congregation for African Americans, Jones was born a slave in Sussex, Delaware. He learned ti read and write, and was able to purchase his wife's freedom and later his own. He joined Richard Allen in leading the exodus from the St. George Church in 1787 , but preferred to follow the Anglican tradition leaving his friend to create the A.M.E. Church . He was with Allen , however, in the formation of the Free African Society.

Phillis Wheatley, African-born, was a internationaly known poet during the Revolutionary Period (1753-1784).

Jean Baptiste Pointe Dusable : built the first house on the site of present-day Chicago (1784).

George Bonia of Duluth, an African American trader of considerable wealth, served as interpreter at the signing of the Chippewa Treaty of 1837.

Maria W. Stewart, said to be " the first native -born Anerican women to speak in public and leave extant texts of her addresses" (Histiruab, Benjamin Quarles). Mrs. Stewart, uneducated, impelled by strong religious beliefs, was an outspoken abolitionist. She spoke several times in Boston between 1831 and 1833. Her farwell speech" What if I Am A Woman", defended her right to speak in opposition to salvery.

Ira Aldridge, Actor, 1807-1867, achieved fame as a star of Shakespearean dramas and as an eminent tragedian. he spend his early years in Maryland and attended the African Free School in New York. He later attended Schenectady College before entering the University of Glasgow . Aldridge achieved fame in the great theatres of Europe.

As I stated these are only a very few, that have contributed so much to, not only American History, but to the World at Whole..

Will list more " Distinguished African American during the month of Feb. 2010 , Which is Black History Month..

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