Mr. Bradwell was interviewed in 1863 and was enslaved in Kentucky as a shoemaker and then became a minister. Mr. Bradwell was formerly a slave, but is now a Methodist preacher.  He said he bought himself, paying most of the price himself, and the Methodist Church paying the rest and taking a deed of him, so that his is nominally the slave of the church; but that is merely to meet the requirements of the law.  He has a comfortable house, and works at shoemaking part of the time, and preaches and exhorts the rest.  He was sold by the heirs of his first master, who were his nephews, and when Dr. Howe visited the house, one of these nephews, who had come to town, was at the house, and his horse was in the colored man’s stable.  He says the colored Methodist pulpit of the city is now supplied by the white Methodist clergy in succession, their colored preacher being absent; that there are two large Methodist churches, and that a majority of the members are slaves.  He states that within the past year, one of these churches raised $700, and the other $650 towards paying off their debts, and that slaves contributed largely towards this.