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In 1856 the Canadian wing of the African Methodist Episcopal Conference changed the name of their denomination from "African" to "British" in order to give their places of worship a greater Canadian identity. The new name also protected the congregations from fear of being recaptured by American slave owners or their bounty hunters.

Resources in This Category

• From Slavery to a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada

  http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/edwardsc/menu.html
  Full text online of this 1891 biography. Includes a portrait of the bishop.

• S.R. Drake Memorial Church

  http://comdir.bfree.on.ca/medrake/drakemem.htm
  Brantford, Ontario.

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