He is a member of the Baptist church, and used to preach occasionally.

His wife is a free woman from Philadelphia, and being able to read and write, taught her husband.

The whites do not know that he can write, and have often wondered that he could preach so well without learning.

It is the practice when a church is crowded, to turn the blacks out of their seats.

My brother did not like this, and on one occasion preached a sermon from a text, showing that all are of one blood.