American minister of African descent, born in New York on the 3rd of March 1819. Wishing to adopt the ministry, he applied for admission to the Protestant Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York City, but was refused on account of his color. In 1832 he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Griswold of Boston, and was later admitted to the priesthood by Bishop Lee of Delaware. He entered Cambridge University, England, where he received the degree of B.A., and then went as a missionary to Liberia, Africa, where he occupied a chair in the Liberian College. He returned to the United States and became rector of St. Luke’s Church, Washington, DC. He has published The English Language in Liberia: An Address (1861); The Future of Africa (addresses, etc)., delivered in the Republic of Liberia (1862); The Negro Race not Under a Curse (1863); The Greatness of Christ, and Other Sermons (1882); Africa and America (1891).
