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Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831) was a minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States. He opened his first AME church in 1794 in Philadelphia. (From Wikipedia) More about Richard Allen:
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Books by Richard Allen Books about Richard Allen: Filed under: Allen, Richard, 1760-1831![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)- The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
- The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
- Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
6 additional books about Richard Allen in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Richard Allen. (Helicon, 1963), by Marcia M. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)- Was Richard Allen great? : sermon delivered by Rev. John M. Palmer, Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, Lombard Street, above Nineteenth, Philadelphia, Sunday evening, February 20, '98. (Philadelphia : Weekly Astonisher Print, [1898], 1898), by John Moore Palmer and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Who was Richard Allen and what did he do? (Baltimore : [publisher not identified], [1905], 1905), by John Thomas Jenifer and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
- The sons of Allen (Xenia, Ohio : Aldine Press, 1906., 1906), by Horace Talbert, Charles Simpson Butcher, and W. S. Scarborough (page images at HathiTrust)
- Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore, Md. : Church Advocate Press, 1915., 1915), by George F. Bragg and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bishop Richard Allen and his spirit (Printed by the A.M.E. Book Concern, 1923), by Daniel Minort Baxter (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Richard Allen: - Allen, Richard, 1760-1831, contrib.: Constitution of the American Society of Free Persons of Colour, for Improving Their Condition in the United States, for Purchasing Lands, and for the Establishment of a Settlement in Upper Canada; Also, The Proceedings of the Convention, With Their Address to the Free Persons of Colour in the United States (Philadelphia: Printed by J. W. Allen, 1831), by American Society of Free Persons of Colour (PDF at coloredconventions.org)
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831: The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), contrib. by Absalom Jones
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831: The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), contrib. by Absalom Jones
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831: The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831: The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831: A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793: And a Reputation of some Censures, Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications (Philadelphia: Printed for the authors by W. W. Woodward, 1794), also by Absalom Jones
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