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February 13, the feast day of Absalom Chones.

I'm John Meacham, and this is Reflections of History.

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Today in the Episcopal Church, we commemorate the life and witness of the reverend Absalom

Chones, the first black man to be ordained a priest in the United States of America.

Born into enslavement in Delaware in 1746, Chones became a pivotal figure in the religious

ethos of the American anti-slavery movement.

Essential to the long war for emancipation was the faith of enslaved and freed black people

themselves, many of whom bravely rose against slavery, and many of whom drew on religion through

interminable years of captivity.

Chones, Richard Allen and Thomas Paul were leading ministers in the closing years of the 18th century

and into the 19th. There were alliances and overlap with Quakers, the denomination that was

home to pioneering voices for universal human liberty. Figures such as Benjamin Lay made the case

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