Sermons & Devotionals by Absalom Jones
Absalom Jones
A Thanksgiving Sermon
On Account of the Abolition of the African slave trade, on that day, by the Congress of the United States. By Absalom Jones, rector of the said church. Philadelphia: Fry and Kammerer, 1808. At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal, Church, held on Wednesday, February 11, ... Read More
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Absalom Jones 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.