Absalom Jones

Absalom Jones (November 7, 1746February 13, 1818) was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city. The Free African Society included many people newly freed from slavery after the American Revolutionary War.

In 1794, Jones founded the first Black Episcopal congregation, and in 1802, he was the first African American to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States. He is listed on the Episcopal calendar of saints. He is remembered liturgically on the date of his death, February 13, in the 1979 ''Book of Common Prayer'' as "Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818". Provided by Wikipedia
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    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications

    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some lat... by Jones, Absalom, Allen, Richard

    Published 1972
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    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications By A.J. and R.A

    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some la... by Jones, Absalom 1746-1818

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    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people During the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications

    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people During the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some lat... by Jones, Absalom, Richard, Allen

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    A thanksgiving sermon, preached January 1, 1808, in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal, Church, Philadelphia on account of the abolition of the African slave trade, on that day, by the Congress of the United States

    A thanksgiving sermon, preached January 1, 1808, in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal, Church, Philadelphia on account of the abolition of the African slave trade, on that day... by Jones, Absalom

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    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications

    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some la... by Jones, Absalom

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    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 And a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications. By A.J. and R.A

    A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 And a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some lat... by Jones, Absalom 1746-1818

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