| ACKNOWLEGEMENTS |
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Rev. William J. Simmons D.D. |
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| Rising Sun; or The Antecedents and Advancements of the Colored Race |
| Williams Wells Brown, 1874 |
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| American National Biography |
| Timothy E. Fulop,1999 |
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| Baptist Encyclopedia |
| Williams Cathcart,1881 |
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| Who's Who In Colored America |
| 1927 |
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| The History of the Negro Church |
| Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D., 1921 |
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| The Biography of Freedom Williams |
| 2004 |