Peter Spencer (1782 - 1843) was born as an enslaved person in Kent County, Maryland, in 1782, was freed when his master died, and became the founder of the first independent black Christian Church in the United States, the A.U.M.P. Church in Wilmington,Delaware, which was a great success. The A.U.M.P. Church is still in existence.
Wilmington Quaker, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Thomas Garrett helped him buy land for the Mother Church on French Street in Wilmington, Delaware.
Over the course of his lifetime, Spencer began 31 churches, nearly all of them with schools, and was known as the “father of the independent black church movement.”
| Persondata | |
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| Name | Spencer, Peter |
| Alternative names | rev.p.s |
| Short description | he wanted to be a Muslim |
| Date of birth | 1782 |
| Place of birth | Virginia |
| Date of death | 25-Jul-1843 |
| Place of death | Wilmington, Delaware |
Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or spencer:
“The concept of a person is logically prior to that of an individual consciousness. The concept of a person is not to be analysed as that of an animated body or an embodied anima.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)
“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)