historical treatment of the Black community:4 African Methodist Episcopal Church. — On June 10, 1817, about fifty per- sons of color assembled at the house of James Clendening, and expressed a desire that the Rev. Daniel Coker and the other circuit preachers of the Methodist denomination should visit the

camps, the distances, and the landmarks, and the news ofthe day, falling victim only rarely to "Camp News". He was a prolific letter writer, and records faithfully to whom he wrote, and from whom he received letters, keeping a running tally in the back ofhis diaries. He was also frugal, and kept

," Political Science QuarterlyLVII (1942), 394-410. 2. McCloskey, Robert G. ed. The Works of James Wilson (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967), I, 11-12. 3. Butterfield, L.H., ed. Letters of Benjamin Rush (Princeton, 1951), II, 1008. See, also, Corner, George W., ed. The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush (Princeton

90/2,1986 87 Speaking Plainly: James P. Wickersham on Education and Reconstruction By Paul K. Adams, Ph.D. James P. Wickersham, former teacher, Lancaster County Superintend- ent of Schools, and Principal of Millersville Normal School became Penn- sylvania's Superintendent of Common Schools in 1866

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