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Church Review. Four years
later he was elected a bishop of
the AME Church. Tanner wrote
a number of books including “An
Apology for African Methodism”
(1867) which was highly
regarded among contemporary
American scholars of religion, and
“Outline and Government of the
AME Church” (1883). The
gentleman shown in the present
photograph is shown reading a
newspaper, an appropriate view
given who Tanner was. An image
of Tanner appears in Garland
Penn’s definitive Afro-American
Press and its Editors, page 121.
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