Spottswood Rice (November 1819 – October 31, 1907) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War. Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife and children during the war while he was stationed in St. Louis and they were enslaved in Howard County, Missouri. The letters expressed his desire to be reunited with his family and his anger at his wife's owners. Later, he was ordained a minister in the AME church and served congregations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Colorado. In 1882, he founded the first AME church in New Mexico.
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| - Spottswood Rice (November 1819 – October 31, 1907) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War. Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife and children during the war while he was stationed in St. Louis and they were enslaved in Howard County, Missouri. The letters expressed his desire to be reunited with his family and his anger at his wife's owners. Later, he was ordained a minister in the AME church and served congregations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Colorado. In 1882, he founded the first AME church in New Mexico. (en)
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- Private (rank)
- Savannah, Missouri
- People from Howard County, Missouri
- Rheumatism
- Union Army
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Colorado
- Colorado Springs
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- 19th-century African-American activists
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Glasgow, Missouri
- Missouri
- Benton Barracks
- Madison County, Virginia
- Howard County, Missouri
- 1819 births
- 1907 deaths
- 19th-century American clergy
- Washington, Missouri
- Parsons, Kansas
- African Americans in the American Civil War
- Clergy from St. Louis
- African Methodist Episcopal Church clergy
- People of Missouri in the American Civil War
- United States Army chaplains
- People from Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Slave marriage
- People from Madison County, Virginia
- St. Louis
- New Mexico
- Works Progress Administration
- US Civil War
- St. Louis, Missouri
- 67th United States Colored Infantry Regiment
- African Methodist Episcopal
- Tobacco plantation
- Fauquier County
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| - Spottswood Rice (November 1819 – October 31, 1907) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War. Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife and children during the war while he was stationed in St. Louis and they were enslaved in Howard County, Missouri. The letters expressed his desire to be reunited with his family and his anger at his wife's owners. Later, he was ordained a minister in the AME church and served congregations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Colorado. In 1882, he founded the first AME church in New Mexico. (en)
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