Captive Passage - Departure
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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
has been made
possible in part by:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Right Reverend Richard Allen, circa 1831
When the African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized nationally in 1816, Allen was consecrated its first bishop.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Right Reverend Richard Allen

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