Harry Hosier

Harry Hosier
Bornc. 1750
near Fayetteville, North Carolina
DiedMay 1806
Occupation(s)Coach driver, servant, preacher
ReligionChristian (Methodist)
Ordainedn/a

Harry Hosier (c. 1750 – May 1806[1]), better known during his life as "Black Harry", was an African American Methodist preacher during the Second Great Awakening in the early United States. Dr. Benjamin Rush said that, "making allowances for his illiteracy, he was the greatest orator in America".[2] His style was widely influential[1] but he was never formally ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church or the Rev. Richard Allen's separate African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.[3]

  1. ^ a b Finkelman, Paul. Encyclopedia of African American History 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2, pp. 176–177. "Hosier, Harry 'Black Harry'". Oxford Univ. Press (Oxford), 2006.
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