Thomas Paul
Thomas Paul (1773–1831) was a Baptist minister in Boston, Massachusetts, affiliated with the African Meeting House and the Education Society for the People of Colour.[2][3] Paul lived in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.[4] His children included activist Susan Paul.[5]
Life
He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire; of six brothers, three including Nathaniel Paul became Baptist preachers. His sister Nancy married James Monroe Whitfield.[6][7]
Paul was educated for the ministry in Hollis, New Hampshire, at the Free Will Baptist church.[6][8] He was then instrumental in founding the African Baptist Church in Boston in 1805, and the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York in 1808.[9]
In 1815 Paul travelled with Prince Saunders to England, in a delegation from the Masonic Lodge of Africans, meeting William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. A topic raised was of black emigration to Haiti.[10] Paul spent time in francophone Haiti as a missionary in 1823, but speaking no French made little impact on the Catholic population there.[6] He continued to promote Haiti as a destination for emigration.[11]
Family
He married Catherine Waterhouse in 1805. They had three children, Ann, Susan, and Thomas, Jr.[12]
References
- ↑ http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/brush/index/portraits/paul.htm Retrieved 05-21-2010
- ↑ Christian Herald v.4, no.15, Jan. 3, 1818.
- ↑ Winchel. Concord Gazette, Jan. 19, 1819.
- ↑ Boston Directory. 1807, 1818, 1823.
- ↑ Lois Brown. Out of the Mouths of Babes: The Abolitionist Campaign of Susan Paul and the Juvenile Choir of Boston. New England Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 52-79.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Nathan Aaseng, African-American Religious Leaders (2003), p. 168–9.
- ↑ Robert Steven Levine, Ivy G. Wilson (editors), The Works of James M. Whitfield: America and other writings by a nineteenth-century African American poet (2011), p. 7; Google Books.
- ↑ Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery page.
- ↑ Charles Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya, The Black Church in the African-American Experience (1990), p. 25; Google Books.
- ↑ Léon Dénius Pamphile, Haitians and African Americans: a heritage of tragedy and hope (2001), p. 38; Google Books.
- ↑ Winston James, The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: the life and writings of a pan-Africanist pioneer, 1799-1851 (2010), p. 15; Google Books.
- ↑ blackpast.org.
Further reading
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- James Oliver Horton. Generations of Protest: Black Families and Social Reform in Ante-Bellum Boston. New England Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 242-256.
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