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Jan 01, 0001 Madison County, Virginia, United States Died on 31 Oct 1907 (aged 1906)
AME minister
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About Spottswood Rice
- 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.
