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T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
1843–1924
A pioneering African American minister, teacher, and Army chaplain, he wrote with urgency about Black history, citizenship, and military service. His life moved from Reconstruction-era churches and classrooms to Wilberforce University and the ranks of the Buffalo Soldiers.
4 Audiobooks
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
How the Black St. Domingo Legion Saved the Patriot Army in the Siege of Savannah, 1779 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 5
by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward, Containing: A Full Sketch of Her Life With Various Selections from Her Writings and Letters ...
by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.)
by Archibald Henry Grimké, John Wesley Cromwell, Lafayette M. Hershaw, William Pickens, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
About the author
Born in Gouldtown, New Jersey, in 1843, he grew up in a free Black community that valued education and faith. He entered the African Methodist Episcopal ministry as a young man and soon went South after the Civil War, serving congregations and schools during Reconstruction.
Over the years he built an unusually wide-ranging career as a clergyman, educator, and public thinker. He served as a U.S. Army chaplain with the 25th U.S. Infantry, one of the famed Buffalo Soldier regiments, and became known for writing about the achievements and struggles of African Americans in the military and in American life more broadly.
He also taught at Wilberforce University and published books and essays on history, religion, race, and social progress. Remembered as both a scholar and an advocate, he left behind work that helped document Black service and Black intellectual life at a time when both were too often ignored.