James Walker Hood North Carolina · connected1831–1918 African Methodist Episcopal Zion bishop Died in Fayetteville WikipediaWikidata Quotations with a citation Nothing but the desire for the freedom which was denied them in the white Church could have produced this general exodus. Some went so far as to deny that the Negro had a soul; it was claimed by some that he sprang from some species of the monkey, gorilla, or orang-outang .
Nothing but the desire for the freedom which was denied them in the white Church could have produced this general exodus.
Some went so far as to deny that the Negro had a soul; it was claimed by some that he sprang from some species of the monkey, gorilla, or orang-outang .