Abraham Lincoln De Mond
Reverend Abraham Lincoln DeMond (born 1867, Seneca, New York) was an advocate for African American emancipation. He wrote the famous oration The Negro Element in American Life which is his only known publication. DeMond was a well-recognized African American minister in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first black graduate of the State Normal School at Cortland, New York, and later studied theology at Howard University. DeMond served as a pastor in Fort Payne, Alabama, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, Plymouth Congregational Church of Charleston, South Carolina, the First Congregational Church of Buxton, Iowa, and the First Congregational Church of New Orleans.
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