Revd. Charles W. Gardner: Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of the people of colour in Philadelphia, Decr. 20th 1841
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Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia community reformer and anti-slavery Presbyterian pastor, seated, facing forward. Gardner, originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, aided fugitive slaves and participated in the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, as well as worked with several African American intellectual, benevolent, and reform societies including the American Moral Reform Society.; From Life on Stone by A. Newsam; P.S. Duval, Lith. Philada.; Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.Record Contributed By
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- African American Abolitionists
- African American Clergy
- African American Presbyterians
- African Americans
- Clergy
- First African Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Gardner, Charles W., 1782 1863
- Lithographs
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Portrait Prints
- Portraits
- Presbyterian Church
- Social Reformers
- United States