James Theodore Holly
James Theodore Augustus Holly was the first AfricanAmerican bishop in the Protestant Episcopal church, and spent most of his episcopal career as missionary bishop of Haiti.
His parents were freed slaves of African descent and his mother was Roman Catholic. Holly was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and attended public and private schools. When he was 14, he moved with his parents to Brooklyn, New York, and his father taught him to be a shoemaker. While in the national capital and New York City, Holly met several prominent abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, and by 1848 was working with Lewis Tappan. In 1850, he and his brother Joseph opened their own bootmaking shop.
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