Add this copy of Richard Allen: Apostle of Freedom to cart. $1,200.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1935 by Associated Publishers.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine. First edition. Octavo. 300pp., frontispiece. Very slightly rubbed, fine copy lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Nicely Signed by Wesley with a sentiment. Biography of Allen (1760-1831), a former slave who founded the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, the first church of that distinct religious denomination, and who was the co-founder of the Philadelphia Free African Society. Wesley, an important historian, was a dean at Howard University and later the first president of Ohio's Wilberforce State College (now known as Central State College). Very scarce signed by Wesley.