Object Details
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003353 ACMA AV003356
- General
- Title transcribed from opening credits of video recording.
- Creator
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Howell, Michael W.
- Vance, Jim
- Smithsonian Institution
- Names
- African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Free African Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- St. George's United Methodist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831
- Chew, Benjamin, 1722-1810
- Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818
- Sturgis, Stokely
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Delaware
- United States
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American churches
- Churches
- Church history
- Religion
- Methodism
- African American clergy
- Clergy
- Preachers
- Slavery
- Enslaved persons
- Segregation
- Jacob's ladder (Biblical dream)
- Creator
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Howell, Michael W.
- Vance, Jim
- Smithsonian Institution
- See more items in
- Climbing Jacob's Ladder: the Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American cities, 1740 - 1877 Exhibition Records
- Climbing Jacob's Ladder: the Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American cities, 1740 - 1877 Exhibition Records / Series 3: Audiovisual records
- Biographical / Historical
- The Times of Richard Allen was created alongside the Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American Cities, 1740 - 1877 exhibition which explored the growth and central role of African American churches during the 18th- and 19th-centuries in the eastern United States: Boston, Savannah, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond. The exhibition was organized by the Anacostia Museum and held there from October 1987 to October 1988.;Born a slave in 1760 on the Delaware property of Benjamin Chew and later sold to Stokely Sturgis, Richard Allen was one of the founders of the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in 1789. In 1801, his collection of spiritual songs and hymns helped to establish an ongoing tradition of hymn singing at Mother Bethel. Allen also formed the Free African Society, Philadelphia's first black mutual aid society to serve the needs of African Americans regardless of religious beliefs, with Absalom Jones in 1787 after African Americans were segregated during worship services at St. George's United Methodist Church in Philadelphia.;Michael W. Howell collaborated with Smithsonian staff to create The Times of Richard Allen, a one-man dramatization performed by Howell at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History in 1987 to augment the museum's exhibit "After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780-1800," which focused in part on Allen. [McIntyre, Mike. Accolade for Round House. The Washington Post, Feb. 17, 1987.]
- Extent
- 1 Video recording (AV000961, open reel, 1 inch)
- 2 Sound recordings (AV003353, AV003356, open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Date
- 1994
- Custodial History
- Copyright holder unknown. Field 110 might be incorrect. Performer: Michael W. Howell. Narrator: Jim Vance.
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-036, Item ACMA AV000961
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Drama
- Series Citation
- Climbing Jacob's Ladder audiovisual records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Genre/Form
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Drama
- Note
- 000820 000039 000542
- Scope and Contents
- Michael W. Howell dramatizes Richard Allen's life from his birth into slavery through his establishment of what was to become the modern-day African Methodist Episcopal Church. Events which led to the founding of the Free African Society and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia are explained.
- Short one-man dramatization with still images and narration interspersed. Part of Climbing Jacob's Ladder Audiovisual Records. Complete production: AV000961 [captions burned into image]. Production elements: AV003353 and AV003356 [narration]. AV003356: first minute only [remaining recording related to Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston]. Dated 19941031 [AV000961]. Undated [all other recordings].
- Series Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1554838816046-1554838816053-0
