The Founding Father who helped launch one of America’s great Black churches
The Founding Father who helped launch one of America’s great Black churches
Benjamin Rush was an abolitionist who helped Richard Allen form a church that started the AME denomination.
The signing of the Declaration of Independence.(Keith Lance / Getty Images/iStockphoto)
By Eddie Hyatt
1:30 AM on Jul 4, 2021 CDT
One of America’s Founding Fathers, Dr. Benjamin Rush, helped launch one of the most successful Black denominations in America today. Rush (1745-1813)
was a Philadelphia physician, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence and served as surgeon general during the Revolutionary War at George Washington’s request.
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