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About Morris Brown
- Morris Brown (January 8, 1770 – May 9, 1849) was one of the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and its second presiding bishop.
- He founded Emanuel AME Church in his native Charleston, South Carolina.
- It was implicated in the slave uprising planned by Denmark Vesey, also of this church, and after that was suppressed, Brown was imprisoned for nearly a year.
- He was never convicted of any crime. After his release, he took his family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he worked closely with Bishop Richard Allen on expanding the church.
- After Allen's death, Brown was selected as the second bishop of the AME denomination.
- He planted new congregations and established conferences of AME churches in the American Midwest and Ontario, Canada.
- He also mentored rising AME leaders such as the Rev.
- Daniel Payne, and encouraged formal education for new preachers and pastors.
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