@article{694207,
      author = {Strobert, Nelson T.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694207},
      title = {Daniel Alexander Payne the venerable preceptor of the  African Methodist Episcopal Church / [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {University Press of America,},
      abstract = {This is a biography of Daniel Alexander Payne, a free  person of color in nineteenth century Charleston, South  Carolina. He was an educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet,  historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist and bishop of the  African Methodist Episcopal Church. Upon his election as  president of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1863, he  became the first African American to lead an institution of  higher education in the United States.},
      recid = {694207},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 151 p.)},
      address = {Lanham, MD :},
      year = {2012},
}