Moses Martin
American farmer, A.M.E. Church organizer, county commissioner, elections commissioner, and state legislator in South Carolina
About Moses Martin
Moses Martin was an American farmer, politician and religious leader.
Moses Martin was an American farmer, A.M.E. Church organizer, county commissioner, elections commissioner, and state legislator in South Carolina. He helped found White Hall A.M.E. Church in Jenkinsville.
Martin was enslaved from the time of his birth in South Carolina. He was documented as being "mulatto".
He submitted his resignation as county commissioner in 1871 after receiving a death threat from the Ku Klux Klan, but South Carolina governor Robert Kingston Scott refused to accept it.
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American farmer, A.M.E. Church organizer, county commissioner, elections commissioner, and state legislator in South Carolina
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