Henry McNeal Turner Quotes
A singular fact is, that anybody, white or colored, from America is welcomed out here in Africa, either on the coast or back in the interior. While Englishmen, French and Germans are mostly hated. The kings hate them, especially about robbing them of their lands. The French are hated as the devil. Americans are looked upon as their guardians…and the friends of blacks, … I do not understand it yet. France is more prejudiced and more intolerant in her claimed possessions than England and seems far less compromising.
He goes on to observe that the German’s are the most hated of the Europeans in large part because they mainly trade in rotgut liquor much of it poisoned which has a devastating effect on the Africans. (The English, in contrast had to have all alcohol inspected in London for safety, before it could leave for Africa.) The “kings” to which the Bishop referred are the rural tribal kings of whom there were more than a few. It is not as if there were a unified monarchy. Another interesting observation is that although Turner was one of Americas leading Blacks, he used the term frequently, but never capitalized it.
Henry M. Turner, 1834-1915, Minister and Bishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Co-Founder, Georgia Republican Party, Vice President, American Colonization Society, Letter from Freetown, Liberia, November 16, 1891
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Henry McNeal Turner was an African-American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War, he was a pioneer in Georgia in planting new A.M.E. congregations among African Americans there. Born free in South Carolina, Turner learned to read and write and became a Methodist preacher. He joined the AME Church in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1858, where he became a minister. Founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 19th century, the A.M.E. Church was the first independent black denomination in the United States. Later Turner had pastorates in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
