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a colored Methodist Episcopal minister, was born a slave at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1821. He was taught to sing hymns by his first master, who was a minister; experienced conversion at the age of sixteen; was sold twice, and finally liberated by the declaration of emancipation; became a member of the Louisiana Conference, and in it labored faithfully and successfully for many years, dying. at his post in 1879. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1880, page 8.