(RELIGION) Certificate of AME pastoral credentials issued to

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(RELIGION.) Certificate of A.M.E. pastoral credentials issued to Florida Reconstruction leader Robert Meachem. Printed certificate, 8 1/2 x 7 inches, completed in manuscript and signed by Bishop Alexander Walker Wayman with the A.M.E.'s embossed stamp; folds, moderate staining, closed separations at folds, short tape repairs on verso. No place, 9 March 1868

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Robert Meachem (1835-1902) was born into slavery in Quincy, FL and managed to purchase his freedom before the war. He became one of Florida's most prominent Black leaders during Reconstruction, serving as a state senator, court clerk, school superintendent, and postmaster of Monticello, FL. As this certificate shows, he was also ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1868.

Bishop Alexander Walker Wayman (1821-1895), who signed this document, was an important figure in his own right, and a friend of Frederick Douglass.