FROM THE PEN OF THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN LAWYER (LAW.) Allen, Macon B. Autograph Document Signed. "The will of Andrew McDowell Brown from Copy furnished by Joseph Ellison Adger." 3 pages on lined legal-size paper, docketed on the verso of the third page; some small chips, and age-cracks at the edges, where folded; paper evenly toned. Charleston, South Carolina, 28 June, 1878
Macon B. Allen (1816-1894), the first licensed African-American lawyer in America was admitted to the bar in Maine in 1844. Allen opened his first practice in Boston in 1845, and became the first African-American attorney recognized by the Massachusetts bar. Following radical Reconstruction, Allen moved to Charleston, S.C. There he became a partner in the firm of William Whipper.
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