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What are the origins of Richard Allen, founder of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church?

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What are the origins of Richard Allen, founder of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church?

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Born in 1760, he was a slave to the Chew family in Germantown till he bought his freedom at 22. He became a minister and in 1787 led a walkout from St. Georges Methodist Church, which was the start of the founding of the first African American church. Source: Philadelphia Bulletin Almanac, 1976, p.