...with your religious duties ami action in this State ? Answer. It is impossible to separate them here. A man in this State cannot do his whole duty as a...looks out for the political interests of his people. They are like a ship out at sea, and thev must have somebody to guide them ; and it is natural that...

...with your religious duties and action in this State ? Answer. It is impossible to separate them here. A man in this State cannot do his whole duty as a...looks out for the political interests of his people. They are like a ship out at sea, and they must have somebody to guide them ; and it is natural that...

...with your religious duties and action in this State ? Answer. It is impossible to separate them here. A man in this State cannot do his whole duty as a...looks out for the political interests of his people. They are like a ship out at sea, and they must have somebody to guide them ; and it is natural that...

...built new congregations in the area and gave him great prominence. He understood how to use his power. "A man in this State cannot do his whole duty as a minister," he explained, "except he looks out for the political interests of his people. They are like a ship...

...man in this state," explained Charles H. Pearce, an AME minister and a political activist in Florida, "cannot do his whole duty as a minister except he...looks out for the political interests of his people. They are like ships out at sea, and they must have somebody to guide them; and it is natural that they...

...years. His views coincided fully with the church's militant stance. "A man in this State," he declared, "cannot do his whole duty as a minister except he looks out for the political interests of his people."15 The church sent other ministers to assist him, including William G. Stewart and William...

...Chatles H. Peatce, played a leading tole in Flotida's Reconsttuction politics. Peatce believed that "A man in this State cannot do his whole duty as a ministet except he looks out fot the political intetests of his people." Duting the 1868 constitutional...

...came to play a central role in black politics during Reconstruction. Many agreed with AME minister Charles H. Pearce, who held several Reconstruction...few literate blacks in a community, they were called upon to serve as election registrars and candidates for office. Over 100 black ministers, hailing from...

...constitutional convention. White believed, like Florida's AME minister-politician Charles Pearce: "A man . . . cannot do his whole duty as a minister except he looks out for the political interest of his people. They are like ships out to sea, and they must have somebody to guide them;...

...Still, ministers led the way into politics. As the Reverend Charles H. Pearce of Florida observed, "A man in this State cannot do his whole duty as a...looks out for the political interests of his people." Minister-politicians such as Georgia's Henry M. Turner and Tunis G. Campbell, South Carolina's Richard...