Daniel Alexander Payne

By Nelson T. Strobert

Subjects: African American clergy, Educators, united states, Biography, Presidents, Intellectual life, African Americans, Wilberforce University, African American college presidents, Clergy, biography, Clergy, united states, South carolina, biography, Clergy, Educators, African Methodist Episcopal Church, African American scholars

Description: This is a biography of Daniel Alexander Payne, a free person of color in nineteenth century Charleston, South Carolina. He was an educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet, historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Upon his election as president of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1863, he became the first African American to lead an institution of higher education in the United States.