1738[edit] First free African-American community: Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (now usually referred to as Fort Mose) in Florida 1760[edit] First known African-American published author: Jupiter Hammon (poem An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries, published as a broadside)[4] 1768[edit] First known African-American elected to public office: Wentworth Cheswell, town constable in Newmarket, New Hampshire.[5] 1773[edit] First known African-American woman to publish a book: Phillis Wheatley (Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral)[6] First separate African-American church: Silver Bluff Baptist Church, Aiken County, South Carolina[7][8][Note 1] 1778[edit] First African-American U.S. military regiment: the 1st Rhode Island Regiment[9] First African American to formally practice medicine in the U.S.: James Derham, who did not hold an M.D. degree[10] (See also: 1847) 1792[edit] First major African-American Back-to-Africa movement: 1,200 Black Loyalist slaves who escaped to British lines during the American Revolutionary War, were relocated to Nova Scotia and given land, and later chose to settle in Settler Town, Sierra Leone, a British colony 1793[edit] First African Methodist Episcopal Church established: Richard Allen founded Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1794[edit] First African Episcopal Church established: Absalom Jones founded African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19th century[edit] 1804[edit] First African American ordained as an Episcopal priest in the U.S.: Absalom Jones in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[11] 1810s[edit] 1816[edit] First fully independent African-American denomination: African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic states 1821[edit] First African American to hold a patent: Thomas L. Jennings, for a dry-cleaning process[12] 1822[edit] First African-American captain to sail a whaleship with an all-black crew: Absalom Boston[13] 1823[edit] First African American to receive a degree from an American college: Alexander Twilight, Middlebury College[14] (See also: 1836) 1827[edit] First African-American owned-and-operated newspaper: Freedoms Journal 1830s[edit] 1836[edit] First African American elected to public office and to serve in a state legislature: Alexander Twilight, Vermont[14] (See also: 1823) 1837[edit] First formally trained African-American doctor: Dr. James McCune Smith from the University of Glasgow, Scotland[15] 1845[edit] First African American licensed to practice law in the U.S.: Macon Allen from the Boston bar [16] 1847[edit] First African American to graduate from a U.S. medical school: Dr. David J. Peck[17] (Rush Medical College) (See also: 1783, 1837) First African-American president of any nation: Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Liberia[18] 1849[edit] First African-American college professor at a predominantly white institution: Charles L. Reason, New York Central College[19] 1850s[edit] Mary Fields 1851[edit] First African-American member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Patrick Francis Healy.[20] (See also: 1866, 1874) 1853[edit] First novel published by an African American: Clotel; or, The Presidents Daughter, by William Wells Brown.[Note 2][21][22] 1854[edit] First African-American Roman Catholic priest: James Augustine Healy[23] (see 1875 and 1886) First institute of higher learning created to educate African Americans: Ashmun Institute in Pennsylvania, renamed Lincoln University in 1866. (See also: 1863) 1858[edit] First published play by an African American: The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom by William Wells Brown[24] First African-American female college instructor: Sarah Jane Woodson Early, Wilberforce College
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