Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 2: 1750-1805 --Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865 Narrative | Resource Bank | Teacher's Guide Historical Documents Portrait of Absalom Jones c.1810 Resource Bank Contents click image for close-up The most widely recognized image of the Reverend Absalom Jones, completed sometime prior to the winter of 1810, displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th century ...

In 1786 the membership of St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia included both blacks and whites. However, the white members met that year and decided that thereafter black members should sit only in the balcony. Two black Sunday worshippers, Absalom Jones (1746-1818) and Richard Allen (1760-1831), whose enthusiasm for the Methodist Church had brought many blacks into the ...