Thomas James.
American formerly enslaved person, African Methodist Episcopal Zion minister and abolitionist (1804–1891)
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About Thomas James
Thomas James (1804–1891) had been a slave who became an African Methodist Episcopal Zion minister, abolitionist, administrator and author. He was active in New York and Massachusetts with abolitionists, and served with the American Missionary Association and the Union Army during the American Civil War to supervise the contraband camp in Louisville, Kentucky. After the war, he held national offices in the AME Church and was a missionary to black churches in Ohio. While in Massachusetts, he challenged the railroad's custom of forcing blacks into second-class carriages and won a reversal of the rule in the State Supreme Court. He wrote a short memoir published in 1886.
Everything about Thomas James →- Occupation
- abolitionist, writer
- Position held
- minister
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1804
- Died
- 1891, April 18, 1891