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CAMPBELL, Jabez Pitt, A. N. E. bishop, born in Slaughter's Neck, Delaware, 6 February, 1815. He was of African descent, but was born free, and fled to Philadelphia, in 1828, to escape being sold as a slave. He was licensed to preach in 1837, and in 1856 he was elected publisher and editor of the "Christian Recorder," the organ of the African Methodist Episcopal church. He was elected a bishop in 1864, and assigned the task of organizing the church work in Louisiana and California, visiting the last-named state in 1865. In 1876 he was sent as a delegate to the Conference of the Wesleyan connection of England. He is presiding, bishop of the third district of the African Methodist Episcopal church, is president of the board of trustees of Wilberforce University, and also of the educational department of the denomination to which he belongs. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Wilberforce University in 1871.
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