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Mother Union American Methodist Episcopal Church

NC-200: Originally Installed in 2014. Established in 1813 by free African American Peter Spencer, the Union Church of Africans was the first independent African American religious denomination in the United States. After leaving Ashbury Methodist Episcopal Church to start Elon Methodist Church in 1805, Spencer broke with the Methodist Episcopal denomination completely in 1812 due […]