Item Summary

Offers a lively account of his experiences from Bishop Payne's childhood as an orphan in South Carolina to his maturity as an influential leader in the A.M.E. Church. Payne emphasizes the religious aspects of his life, but touches on other important issues including education, racial prejudice, music, and literature. Payne began his career as a high school teacher for African-Americans (both enslaved and free) in South Carolina until laws forbade their education. Payne migrated north to New York and Philadelphia and became involved with the A. M. E. ministry, yet he carried with him his passion for learning and devotion to educating others. Also notable are Payne's descriptions of his trips to Europe as a representative to the Ecumenical Council.

Descriptive Information

Title
Recollections of seventy years / by Daniel Alexander Payne, D.D., L.L.D., senior bishop of the African Methidist Episcopal, Church ; with an introduction by F.J. Grimke, A.M., D.D. ; compiled and arranged by Sarah C. Bierce Scarborough ; edited by Rev. C.S. Smith.
Call Number
N-003149
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc7p88cx25m
Publisher
Nashville, Tenn. : Publishing House of the A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1888.
Language
English
Date Created
1888
Extent
335 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Owner's inscription on front pastedown.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated

Discovery Information

Subject
Payne, Daniel Alexander 1811-1893
African Methodist Episcopal Church—Bishops—Biography
Inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
370

Institutional Information

Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e145a031-4127-46da-b5e6-b5bfd1ad80e9/manifest