Methodist Missionaries

African-American Methodist missionaries from Arkansas photographed in New York City on their way to Liberia; circa 1898.

African-American women in formal dresses with a child sitting in chairs while men in suits stand behind them

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Media

Time Period

Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900)

Category

Ethnic Groups

Type

Group

Race & Ethnicity

African American

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