The 1880 publication, The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, to which is annexed the rise and progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Containing a narrative of yellow fever in the year of our Lord 1793. With an address to the people of color in the United States, offers an autobiographical reflection of Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the denomination’s first Bishop. Richard Allen’s legacy will be celebrated along with Mother Bethel AME’s bicentennial year today in the latest of the release of the U.S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage Commemorative Series with a stamp barring his image.
Read the digitized version of Richard Allen’s autobiography here: https://archive.org/details/lifeexperiencego1880alle
To purchase the Commemorative Stamp visit: https://about.usps.com/postalbulletin/2016/pb22433/html/info_011.htm
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