Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are

talking about Daniel Payne. He was born on February 24th, 1811 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Daniel Payne's an African American.

He was born to free parents.

At a very young age, he lost his father.

He was four when his father died, and then he was four when his father died and then he was nine when his mother died and

he was raised by his aunt there in Charleston. By the time he was 12 he was a

pretty well educated kid.

He had learned a lot of history, had learned a lot of basic subjects, and showed a lot of promise.

But from the ages of 12 to 17 he was sent out as an apprentice and

had various apprenticeships. One of them was to a carpenter and he said that

it was while he was a carpenter that he learned Latin and Greek in Hebrew.

So this is obviously a person with skill and with abilities.

From the time he was 15, he was interested in church work, but he writes of himself

that it wasn't until he was 18 that he was converted, and almost immediately he turned to education both to further his own

education but much more he was after educating others and he felt a unique

calling to educate others.

And from 1830 to 1835,

as a very young man, he ran a school there in Charleston, South Carolina.

Well, the South Carolina legislation at that time passed a law prohibiting

the teaching of both freed blacks and of slaves and of

of course many of his students were freed blacks and slaves and so he wasn't able to run his school anymore so in 1835 he closes down his school and he heads north.

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