From ‘poor, wretched, and undone’ to Bishop
Above: Star Hill was the first A.M.E. church built (1867) in Richard Allen’s hometown of Dover, DE. “He was more like a father to his slaves than anything else,” said Richard Allen years later of Stokely Sturgis, his former master in Dover, DE. Sturgis trusted Allen enough, for example, to allow him as a teenager…