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MURAL EXHIBIT: THE COLORED CONVENTIONS MOVEMENT AND BEYOND IN PHILADELPHIA<\/font><\/h2>\n

JABEZ PITT CAMPBELL<\/font><\/h1>\n

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. \u201cJ. P. Campbell\u201d New York Public Library Digital Collections.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Jabez Pitt Campbell was born on February 5, 1815 in Slaughter Neck, Sussex County, Delaware. His parents, Anthony and Catherine Campbell, were born free. However, poverty plagued the small but growing Black community in Delaware. Jane Rhodes writes, \u201cmajority of African Americans in the state had some degree of control over their lives. This, however, did not translate into the kinds of opportunities for the free blacks that were possible in the North.\u201d[note]Jane Rhodes, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998), 6.[\/note] Crippling poverty forced Jabez Campbell\u2019s father to give his son as collateral security to a creditor, and upon the elder Campbell\u2019s failure to pay the debt, Jabez Campbell ran away. He fled to Pennsylvania where he was sold, but he persevered to gain his freedom. He recounts his motivation for his perseverance: \u201cI was sold for a term of years, the last two of which I bought from my master, after serving him for four and a half years. At eighteen years of age I became my own master. The primary object which I had in view in making this purchase was an insatiable desire for a good education.\u201d[note]Richard R. Wright, Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. (Philadelphia: Book Concern of A.M.E Church, 1916), 58.[\/note] Eager to start a new life, Jabez attained jobs\u2014polishing boots, working at a drawbridge in Philadelphia, being a barber, and being a waiter in his early days. At the age of fifteen, he saved enough money to purchase the remaining three years of his time at the drawbridge to study at Quaker High School. During his later days, from 1838 until 1891, he worked as a full-time minister for the AME church, overseeing different churches each year.<\/p>\n

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On October 23, 1844, while in Albany, Campbell married Stella Medley of Providence, Rhode Island. This marriage was cut short due to Stella\u2019s unknown cause of death. On June 7, 1855, Campbell married Mary Ann Akins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[note]”Bishop Jabez Pitt Campbell. D. D., LL. D., Of the African M. E. Church, Presides.” Cleveland Gazette [Cleveland] 16 Aug. 1884: 1. Print.[\/note] Jabez and Mary Ann had a daughter, Harriet, in 1872. Mary Ann Campbell was a well-educated philanthropist. Her community and church activism is well documented: she is a co-founder of the Woman\u2019s Parent Mite Missionary Society and Frederick Douglass Hospital.[note]Jesse Carney Smith. Notable Black American Women Book II. (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1996), 80.[\/note] Her activism indicates that Jabez Campbell is supportive of female participation; however, it is clear that he believes that higher official church roles should only be fulfilled by men. Upon learning that Bishop Henry McNeal Turner ordained Sarah Ann Hughes to become a deacon, Jabez Campbell responded: \u201cMan cannot do woman\u2019s work and fill her his place under the divine economy, and woman cannot do a man\u2019s work and fill his place under the same divine economy. . . Women always have been and are now recognized as helpers. . . for that is the will of the Lord.\u201d[note]Stephen Ward Angell. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South. (Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1992),183[\/note]While in charge of the church in Philadelphia, Jabez was appointed by the Bishop as the General Book Steward. In 1856 Campbell became the second editor of The Christian Recorder<\/em>. Campbell resigned as the General Book Steward in 1858 and in the same year was elected President of the Board of Trustees of the Book Concern for the AME Church.<\/p>\n

On August 9, 1891 in Philadelphia, 76-year-old Campbell died of feeble health. On August 13, 1891, hundreds gathered as he was buried at the Olive Cemetery in Philadelphia. Over the course of his life, Campbell served as the President of the Trustee Board of Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, OH. From the same university, he received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity (D.D.). He also acquired an Honorary Doctor of Laws (L.L.D.) degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Jabez Pitt Campbell is known to have lived a selfless life of humility and diligence in ministry.<\/p>\n

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Submitted anonymously for the class taught by Jessica Conrad at the University of Delaware. Revised and edited by Samantha de Vera.<\/p>\n

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