Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America—The New York Times Bestselling Retelling of US History Through the Experiences of Black Americans

by Michael Harriot

Shortly before fifty-five white men, including about twenty-five slaveowners,16 convened in Philadelphia in 1787 for the Constitutional Convention, two Black preachers—Richard Allen and Absalom Jones—founded the city’s first Black religious organization, the Free African Society (FAS).