MEN OF MARYLAND.
Bragg, Rev. George F.
Baltimore: Church Avocate Press, 1914. First Edition. 135pp. 12mo. Original brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering at front cover. Former owner's anme on front pastedown near inner hinge - Nannie W. Gray, 1116 Argyle Avenue, 1917. Very Good example of this uncommon work by an early African American historian. (Item ID: 53623)
$350.00
George Freeman Bragg served as the secretary and historiographer of the Conference of Church Workers Among the Colored People for 35 years beginning in 1882. His historical writings include First Negro Priest on Southern Soil, Men of Maryland, History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church, and Richard Allen and Absalom Jones. Bragg was born into an Episcopalian family in 1863 in Warrenton, North Carolina. He was the grandson of a slave who helped establish St. Stephen's Episcopal Church for Negroes in Petersburg, Virginia. Bragg was a life-long proponent of voting rights and higher education for blacks. He served as rector of St. James First African Church, Baltimore, Maryland from 1891 until his death in 1940 and also established the Maryland Home for Friendless Colored Children in 1899.