Freedom & Opportunity

Images used in this video:

Richard Allen, from the frontispiece of ''History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church'' (1891) by Daniel A. Payne Source: http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/payne/paynefp.jpg

Bishops of the A.M.E. Church. Boston: J.H. Daniels. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98501269/>.

The Revd. Absalom Jones, Rector of St. Thomas’s African Episcopal Church in the City of Philadelphia. Stipple engraving by W. R. Jones & John Boyd, after the oil painting by Rembrandt Peale Philadelphia, ca. 1820). Retrieved from Mother Bethel Church.

Breton, William L., Circa Artist. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, -07. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670179/>.

A Sunday Morning View of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia. Lithograph by W. L. Breton (Philadelphia, 1823). Retrieved from the Library Company of Philadelphia. <https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64144>.

Richard Allen, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57845 Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19-22-011-museum.jpg

Historic American Buildings Survey. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 419 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, PA. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/pa1110/>.

Historic American Buildings Survey and Abraham B Eastwood, photographer, Abraham B. Bensalem African Methodist Episcopal Church,Bridgewater Road Bensalem, Bridgewater, Bucks County, PA. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/pa1729/>.

A.M.E. Zion Church, Bleecker Street, New York City. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002737222/>.

African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2001705860/>.

Historic American Buildings Survey and Abraham B Eastwood, photographer. Bensalem African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bridgewater, PA. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/pa1729/>.

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Richard Allen. Encyclopædia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/African-Methodist-Episcopal-Church#/media/1/8302/353424. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.