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

Captive Passage
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, early 19th century Born a slave, Richard Allen established the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia on February 4, 1794. It was the first church organized and directed by blacks in the United States.
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia

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