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Freedom's Prophet

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

2008 INDIES Winner
Gold, Biography (Adult Nonfiction)

Richard S. Newman
NYU Press (March 2008)
Hardcover $34.95 (368pp)
978-0-8147-5826-7

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Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-Americ