d able ministry. There are several associations
embracing many live churches.

In Kentucky the Colored Baptists are very numerous, and own much
valuable property; but Virginia seems to have more Baptists among its
great population of Colored people than any other State in the South.
There are a dozen or more in Richmond, including the one presided over
by the famous John Jasper. One of them has, it is said, three thousand
members(?). But the District of Columbia has more Colored churches for
its area and population than any other place in the United States.
There are at least twenty-five Baptist churches in the District, and
some of them have interesting histories. The Nineteenth Street Baptist
Church is as an intelligent a society of Christian people of color as
there is to be found in any city in the country. Its pulpit has always
been occupied by the ablest ministers in the country. The Revs.
Sampson White, Samuel W. Madden, and Duke W. Anderson were men of
education and marked ability. And there is little doubt but what Duke
W. Anderson was the ablest, most distinguished clergyman of color in
the United States. And for his work's sake he deserves well of
history.

Duke William Anderson was born April 10, 1812, in the vicinity of
Lawrenceville, Lawrence County, in the State of Illinois, of a Negro
mother by a white father. His father, lately from North Carolina,
fell under Gen. Harrison fighting the Indians. Like so many other
great men he was born in an obscure place--a wigwam. At the time of
his father's death he was quite a young baby. He was now left to the
care of a mother who, in many respects, was like her husband, bold and
courageous for the truth, and yet as gentle as a child. It is
peculiarly trying and difficult for a mother who has all the comforts
of modern city life, to train and educate her boys for the duties of
life; and if so, how much more trying and difficult must it have been
for a mother on the North-western frontiers, seventy years ago, to
train her boys?

Destitute of home and its comforts, without friends or money; no farm,
school, or church, Mrs. Anderson began to train her two boys, John
Anderson and D. W. Anderson. Of the former, little or nothing is
known, save that he was the only brother of D. W. Anderson.

True to the instincts of her motherly heart, Mrs. Anderson was
determined to remain upon the spot purchased and consecrated by the
blood of her lamented husband. She could not d