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Amos Beman
Amos Gerry Beman (1812-1872) was a 19th-century African American pastor and social activist from Connecticut. He was a prominent African American abolitionist. ==Personal life== Beman was born in Colchester, Connecticut and later moved to Middletown, Connecticut. His grandfather, Cesar, earned his right to freedom by fighting in the Revolutionary War in place of his master. With his freedom, he took the name Beman, claiming his right to "be a man." Cesar was a shoemaker, a trade he passed down to his son Jehiel, who then passed this on to Jehiel's eldest son Leverett.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Beman Triangle, Wesleyan University )〕 Unlike Leverett, Amos followed a path of study and was destined to enter the ministry. Jehiel Beman, Amos' father, was the first pastor of the Cross Street AME Zion Church in Middletown, CT, and was later pastor of the Boston AME Zion Church.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jehiel Beman, Community Leader )〕 Amos Beman was tutored for a short time by Wesleyan University student Samuel Dole, but was driven from the university by a letter from "The Twelve of Us," which threatened his safety. Following this, Beman moved to Hartford, Connecticut to begin his professional career. Throughout his life, Beman followed in the footsteps of his father, Jehiel Beman. In addition to serving as pastor of an African American church in Connecticut, Jehiel Beman was heavily involved in several social activist movements. His son would lead a similar life.〔 Beman was originally married to a woman named Eunice, with whom he had three sons and two daughters: Mary, Amos, Fannie, Charles, and Emma. However, in 1856, his family was decimated by typhoid fever, which killed his wife and three of his children. A year after these tragedies, Beman remarried Eliza Kennedy, a white woman - a decision that drastically undermined his image as pastor of the Temple Street Church. After his second wife died of cancer, Beman married a third time to an African American named Mary Allen,〔(Ancestry.com ) 〕 but for most of his acquaintances, it was too late for Beman to atone for his decision to marry a white woman.〔
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