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Daniel Coker

American bishop and missionary · Religious Figures · Lived 1780 to 1846 · aged 66

Daniel Coker (1780-1846), born Isaac Wright, was an African American of mixed race from Baltimore, Maryland. Born a slave, after he gained his freedom, he became a Methodist minister in 1802. He wrote one of the few pamphlets published in the South that protested against slavery and supported abolition.

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In 1816, he helped found the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States, at its first national convention in Philadelphia.

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Category
Religious Figures
Type
Religious Figure
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1780 to 1846 · aged 66