March 04, 2023
SoulTic Magazine’s Comprehensive List Of African American / Black Firsts That Helped Break The Color Barrier – pt-3 Internet Vol – 3
First African Episopal Church estabished : Absalom Jones founded African Episcopal Church of St . Thomas , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ( 1794 )
First African Methodist Episcopal Church established : Richard Allen founded Mother Bethel A . M . E . Church , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ( 1793 )
First major African – American Back – to – Africa movement : 1 , 200 slaves who escaped to settle in Settler Town , Sierra Leone ( 1792 )
First African American to formally practice medicine in the U . S . : James Derham , who did not hold an M . D . degree ( 1783 ) ( short note see 1847 )
First African _ American U . S . military regiment : the 1st Rhode Island Regiment ( 1778 )
First known African – American woman to publish a book : Phillis Wheatley ( Poems on Moral Topics , Religious and other Subjects ) ( 1773 )
First separate African American church : Silver Bluff Baptist Church , Aiken County , South Carolina ( 1773 )
First known African – American published author : Jupiter Hammon ( ” An Evening Thought : Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries ” , published as a broadside )