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INTRODUCTION
Richard Allen (1760- 1831) was a hero to the African Americans in becoming the first black bishop of in the U.S. He was the first black author to own copyright
, first black individual to eulogize the president of America. Sir George Washington. Notably, Allen founded the most respected institutions for his African -American community mainly the church of African Methodist Episcopal (AME). When Richard Allen was born, no one noticed him not the far away royal palace of London, and he was not affected by the talks of liberty and freedom at the time of colonial America. News of his birth reached the years of his mother鈥檚 master who were ten living in Philadelphia
, Pennsylvania, who was born a slave. Richard鈥檚 mother held his baby close hoping against hope that she would protect her child from the harsh slavery realities. Slavery did not provide liberties or freedom for the slaves. Richard鈥檚 mother was aware of the slave鈥檚 auction block where babies were ripped off from their mother鈥檚 arm and sold away to a different owner far away, and she would never see the child again. Richard鈥檚 father was a white colonizer who sold Richard and her mother just like cattle. As she counted her sons little ten fingers and ten toes, Richard鈥檚 mother knew she had no any fortune to count on his son. Doing so would have greatly warmed her heart
, however if she knows that one day her son would come back to Philadelphia, his birth city, to become the most and greatest influential leader fighting for the justice of the free blacks at the time of the newly formed United States of America.
Richard Allen used his freedom in fighting for justice and liberty of African Americans both the free and enslaved. He led the way for his African American community. He became the first to create a path and forge footsteps along the freedom trail for others to follow. He rose up from the slavery pit to become a prominent founder of Black America. This essay provides a Compelling account of the ascension of Allen to leadership, his symbolic black religion representation and personal sacrifice towards the cause of justice. Finally
, they say his impact to the present day ongoing fight for justice. The essay argues that Allen is essentially the forerunner of all the modern justice and civil rights activist for his nonviolent and brief yet confrontational reforms in providing lessons for almost all black leaders who followed his footpath.
Leadership and justice
Almost every early institution for the blacks in the north did use the adjective 鈥淎frica鈥?as its title about African School, Free African Society, and the Philadelphia African Church. It is because the ex-slaves positively identified themselves to their ancestral homelands and did not subscribe to the characterizations by the common whole in referring to Africa as the cultureless and dismal environment. Despite this white racism still impinged on the blacks lives from all angles. Although not in its virulent form as it took during the early 19th Century, it was meant to keep cowed the weakest and poorest members of the black communities that were emerging. Just a few years after the bondage in the 1860s
, the free blacks in Philadelphia ended up living in a highly fluid situation filled with opportunities and dangers. Their low position made it imperative to accept the benevolent white support who offered jobs, education and also moral guidance. At the same time, the blacks hardly hoped to obtain a release from their racial brethren who were still in bondage without any white support and leadership. Based on this ideological context we can examine the Philadelphia鈥檚 Free African Society as being a much more entity than a black society of mutual aid. The start of organizations in which the free blacks took their first halting steps towards the development of their leadership as well as the ability to solve their problems, meant that they were forming a society which assumed the supremacy role rather than a moral role by founding churches for the black community. The free blacks also took steps in the creation of a visionary black consciousness from the disparate human material that started in Philadelphia during this period.
The most crucial trait of Allen was his rigid determination or obstinacy. He was a stubborn person in an era when many black Americans had learned to concede
, defer and dissemble to the white authority so as to survive. The black comrades also knew of Allen鈥檚 stubbornness. Allen balked when the free African Society could not follow the Methodist principles. He left the group that he had helped in organizing. He explains, 鈥榯here is no religious sect that would fit the capacity of the colored people like the Methodist.鈥?During the yellow fever epidemics, the whites criticized the African Americans and Allen did not waste a single minute in calling them racist and hypocritical in print form. Having a printer set up enabled his work is accessible all over the Atlantic coast and also as far as the Great Britain.
To Allen, his dignity and propriety were his key and central part of identity. His famous portrait of 1813 commissioned by him the black preacher was a display of his dignified persona. The portrait shows his graying hair on top of his round face and a prominent forehead
, a dimpled chin, and flat nose as well as the deep-set eyes yet piercing. The portrait shows his appropriate dressing in the formal garb of the day, heavy, dark vest and a long dark suit coat with a white collar
, simply shows that Allen did not put on any airs. On an important note, his pose refuses to let the viewers pity or condescend to the African American figure. Allen did, in fact, turn tables on those who looked at him
, and he shot at them a piercing glance outward while firmly pointing a figure on the Bible in his lap. Thus, anyone who gave Richard Allen the first look, one would automatically know that he was mor In.
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