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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: William Paul Quinn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Paul Quinn, the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was born on April 10, 1788 in Calcutta, India.  Quinn was admitted to the conference in 1816 and present at the organization of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.  He was ordained a deacon in 1818 and an elder in 1838.  Bishop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Major Nelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major Nelson was born enslaved near Columbia, Adair Co., Southern Kentucky in 1818. Around his fifteenth year he was licensed and ordained to preach in a white Methodist Episcopal Church. Nelson remained enslaved until Emancipation.  During this time he preached on a circuit of white congregations in Kentucky.  After the Civil War, Nelson joined the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: African Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Howard Day’s mother, a strong abolitionist and a founding member of the first African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in New York City, taught him an early lesson about courage. She had to escape from an attack by anti-abolitionists in 1833 when mob violence forced church members to barricade their homes. William boarded with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom: Wilberforce College, Xenia, Ohio</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/06/wilberforce-college-xenia-ohio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in 1856, the Methodist Episcopal Church purchased property for a college for African Americans at Tawawa Springs, near Xenia, Ohio. The original Wilberforce closed in 1862 and, in March 1863, Bishop Daniel A. Payne of the African Methodist Episcopal Church negotiated to transfer the institution and its property to the A.M.E. Church. Named in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Star Hill A.M.E. Church, Delaware</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Underground Railroad site is a small African American church that harbored fugitive slaves fleeing through rural Delaware. The church still stands and is located on Route 13, east of Country Road and Route 330.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: St. John&#8217;s A.M.E. Church, Niagara County, New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. John’s A.M.E. Church was the first black church founded in Niagara County, New York, and remains located today in the heart of Niagara Falls’ African American community. In the antebellum period, St. John&#8217;s, like many structures in Niagara County, was a key station on the Underground Railroad.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: James A.M.E. Church, Ithaca, New York</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/06/james-a-m-e-church-ithaca-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the oldest AME churches in the country, St. James may also be the oldest church in Ithaca. The church sheltered runaway slaves in the Ithaca area, a vital transfer point for freedom seekers on their way to Canada. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass were among the famous visitors to the church.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Quinn Chapel A.M.E.</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/06/faith-freedom-daily-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1844 a group of seven people who met regularly in the home of John Day founded this church. Quinn Chapel was approved and on July 22, 1847, it officially became a congregation of the A.M.E. Church. The founders chose the name Quinn Chapel in honor of Bishop William Paul Quinn, the A.M.E. missionary who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Mount Gilead A.M.E. Church,  Pennsylvania</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/06/mount-gilead-a-m-e-church-pennsylvania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Built in 1835 near Buckingham Mountain, Pennsylvania, the Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church was the last Underground Railroad station leading to the Delaware River and into New Jersey. Mount Gilead was founded by Big Ben Jones, himself a fugitive slave, six feet ten inches in height.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily:Mother A.M.E. Zion Church,  New York, NY</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/06/faith-freedom-dailymother-ame-zion-church-york-ny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1800, Mother Zion A.M.E. Church is the oldest African American church in New York State.  Under the leadership of Reverend James Varick, Mother Zion was a bulwark of the abolition movement and a significant station on the Underground Railroad.  The original church was located on Leonard Street, but later moved to Harlem.]]></description>
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