In 1890, the Southern Presbyterian Church appointed William Sheppard, an Afro-American from Waynesboro, Va., and Samuel N. Lapsley, a white man from Anniston, A

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This comprehensive biography of William Sheppard, the first African American Presbyterian missionary, presents the remarkable story of how an African American b