Draft:John Dozier
John Dozier was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
In 1873 he represented Perry County, Alabama along with P. G. Clarke and G. S. W. Lewis.[1]
He was enslaved and was owned by a college president in Virginia who mansumitted? emancipated? him. His wife and son had been sold to and were on a plantation in Alabama. Dozier went to them. He became a pastor and settled in Marion County, Alabama where he founded the First Colored Baptist Church.He was a trustee of Lincoln Normal Achool.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Representatives, Alabama Legislature House of (December 30, 1873). "Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama" – via Google Books.
- ^ Fallin, Wilson (August 17, 2007). "Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama". University of Alabama Press – via Google Books.