Founding of the M. E. Church of America in 1768.--Negro Servants and Slaves among the First Contributors to the Erection of the First Chapel in New York.--The Rev. Harry Hosier the First Negro Preacher in the M. E. Church in America.--His Remarkable Eloquence as a Pulpit Orator.--Early Prohibition against Slave-holding in the M. E. Church.--Strength of the Churches and Sunday-schools of the Colored Members in the M. E. Church.--The Rev. Marshall W. Taylor, D.D.--His Ancestors.--His Early Life and Struggles for an Education.--He Teaches School in Kentucky.--His Experiences as a Teacher.--Is ordained to the Gospel Ministry and becomes a Preacher and Missionary Teacher.--His Settlement as Pastor in Indiana and Ohio.--Is given the Title of Doctor of Divinity by the Tennessee College.--His Influence as a Leader, and his Standing as a Preacher 465 CHAPTER XXVI. THE COLORED BAPTISTS OF AMERICA. The Colored Baptists an Intelligent and Useful People.--Their Leading Ministers in Missouri, Ohio, and in New England.--The Birth, Early Life, and Education of Duke William Anderson.--As Farmer, Teacher, Preacher, and Missionary.--His Influence in the West.--Goes South at the Close of the War.--Teaches in a Theological Institute at Nashville, Tennessee.--Called to Washington.--Pastor of 19th Street Baptist Church.--He occupies Various Positions of Trust.--Builds a New Church.--His Last Revival.--His Sickness and Death.--His Funeral and the General Sorrow at his Loss.--Leonard Andrew Grimes, of Boston, Massachusetts.--His Piety, Faithfulness, and Public Influence for Good.--The Completion of his Church.--His Last Days and Sudden Death.--General Sorrow.--Resolutions by the Baptist Ministers of Boston.--A Great and Good Man Gone 475 Part 9. _THE DECLINE OF NEGRO GOVERNMENTS._ CHAPTER XXVII. REACTION, PERIL, AND PACIFICATION. 1875-1880.