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Elisha W. Green
# Scholarly Bio: Elisha W. Green
Elisha W. Green was a significant nineteenth-century African American religious leader whose theological contributions and pastoral work shaped Black Protestant thought during the antebellum and Reconstruction periods. His life and ministry, documented in biographical accounts, exemplified the intellectual rigor and spiritual authority that Black clergy exercised within their communities despite systemic racial constraints. Green's theological writings and ecclesiastical leadership reflected the complex negotiations between African American religious autonomy and the broader evangelical movements of his era.
From Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green
p. 1 WAS born in Bourbon County, near Paris, Ky., six miles to the right of that place, on the Georgetown turnpike. The date of ^ my birth I am not prepared to mention, because the book that had the ages in it was burned. I lived in Bourbon County until I was ten years old; then I came to Mason County, where I now reside. Some instances which took place in Bourbon while I was there I have forgotten, and a few I remember yet. For instance, the following: The name of the man I lived with in Bourbon was Judge Brown. My mother, sisters Charlotte and Harriet and the balance of the children were then divided among the heirs of Dobbyns — sister Evaline to Silas Devaush; brother Marshall to the same man; brother Alvin to Thomas Perry ; brother Henry to Thomas Dobbyns ; brother Elijah to…
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