Metropolitan A.M.E. Church records, 1825-1926.

Bethel Literary and Historical Association of Washington, D.C.

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Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.)

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Metropolitan was founded in 1838, in the District of Columbia. It is the oldest A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. The church represents the 1870s merger of two A.M.E. congregations, Israel Bethel (1821) and Union Bethel (1838), a stop on the Underground Railroad. The name "Metropolitan" was officially designated and recognized by the general A.M.E. Church in 1872. From the description of Metropolitan A.M.E. Church records, 1825-1926. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource...

Simms family.

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Union Bethel Church (Washington, D.C.)

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