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Pearce</b> (1817–1887) was a religious and political leader in Florida. An <a href="/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal" class="mw-redirect" title="African Methodist Episcopal">African Methodist Episcopal</a> (AME) minister, he was dispatched to <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> in 1865, after the American Civil War. He had previously been a missionary in Canada after moving from Maryland to Connecticut. He helped bring the AME Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States, to Florida and worked to build its congregation during and after the <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a>. In 1868 Pearce was elected as a delegate to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida#Constitution" title="Constitution of Florida">Florida Constitutional Convention of 1868</a>. Later that year he was elected to the state legislature as a state senator from <a href="/wiki/Leon_County,_Florida" title="Leon County, Florida">Leon County, Florida</a>. He served numerous terms in the legislature, working to gain support for civil rights and public education for Floridians. </p><p>Pearce was born into slavery in Maryland and bought his freedom<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> then moved North to <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, where he was ordained, and later to Canada, where he served as a preacher and became a British citizen. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_education_and_career_as_minister"><span id="Early_life.2C_education_and_career_as_minister"></span>Early life, education and career as minister</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_H._Pearce&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life, education and career as minister"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pearce was born into slavery in 1817 in <a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne%27s_County,_Maryland" title="Queen Anne's County, Maryland">Queen Anne's County, Maryland</a>. As a young man, he purchased his freedom by saving his portion of earnings from being "hired out." He moved to <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, where he studied and was ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Founded in 1816 by free blacks in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, this was the first independent black denomination in the United States. </p><p>Pearce later moved to Canada and became a British citizen, as it was still a colony. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 refugee African Americans from the United States had settled there to gain freedom from slavery. He preached there until 1865. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="AME_missionary_to_the_South">AME missionary to the South</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_H._Pearce&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: AME missionary to the South"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1865, after the Civil War, Pearce moved to Florida as an AME missionary. Based in the North, the church sent numerous missionaries to the South to aid the <a href="/wiki/Freedmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedmen">freedmen</a> and plant new churches. Pearce settled in the state capital <a href="/wiki/Tallahassee,_Florida" title="Tallahassee, Florida">Tallahassee</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leon_County,_Florida" title="Leon County, Florida">Leon County, Florida</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_H._Pearce&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pearce said, "A man in this State, cannot do his whole duty as a minister except he looks out for the political interests of his people."<sup id="cite_ref-Pearce_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pearce-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pearce became a prominent black officeholder in the Reconstruction era, a time when threats and white animosity to <a href="/wiki/Freedmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedmen">freedmen</a> was high.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White insurgents formed <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary">paramilitary</a> groups including the <a href="/wiki/KKK" class="mw-redirect" title="KKK">KKK</a> to disrupt elections, intimidate black voters, and assassinate Republican Party leaders in an effort to restore white supremacy. </p><p>While helping establish new congregations of the AME Church, Pearce also joined the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> and built political power through these networks. Most freedmen joined the Republicans. Pearce was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Florida#Constitution" title="Constitution of Florida">Constitutional Convention of 1868</a> of Florida. He was expelled by moderate Republicans because of his British citizenship. </p><p>Later in 1868, Pearce was elected as a Republican to the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Senate" title="Florida Senate">Florida Senate</a>, serving one term until 1870 when he was re-elected despite a factional Republican Party challenge from Baptist and more conservative <a href="/wiki/James_Page_(minister)" title="James Page (minister)">James Page</a>. He was elected again in 1872, and served to 1884. In this period, during the <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction Era">Reconstruction Era</a>, he was considered the political boss of <a href="/wiki/Leon_County,_Florida" title="Leon County, Florida">Leon County, Florida</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Foner1996_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foner1996-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where the freedmen constituted the majority of the population. Pearce was influential in his support (and, in some cases, opposition to others seeking office or in office). </p><p>Pearce also helped establish educational institutions, including the predecessor to what became <a href="/wiki/Edward_Waters_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Waters College">Edward Waters College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville, Florida</a>, which was affiliated with the AME Church.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also gained state legislative support of education for all Floridians.<sup id="cite_ref-vineyard_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vineyard-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an act of political payback, in November 1876 Pearce was challenged and disqualified as an <a href="/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral College (United States)">elector</a> for the Republican <a href="/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Rutherford B. Hayes">Rutherford B. Hayes</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Wheeler" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wheeler">William Wheeler</a> ticket, at the time that votes for electors were still being tallied from various counties. He had been convicted by a circuit court in 1870 of a felony for offering a bribe. Although he was pardoned on April 29, 1872, by Acting Governor <a href="/wiki/Samuel_T._Day" title="Samuel T. Day">Samuel T. Day</a> and <a href="/wiki/E._M._Randall" class="mw-redirect" title="E. M. Randall">E. M. Randall</a>, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as certified in December 1876 by the Secretary of State in Florida, votes cast for him in the presidential election were not accepted. His opponents noted there was no provision under Florida law to allow a convicted felon, even though pardoned, to regain his right to vote or serve as an elector.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through the waning years of Reconstruction, white conservative Democrats made other efforts to dispute and prevent the seating of black electors, or voting by blacks for other Republican candidates, and there was considerable violence and intimidation at the elections. </p><p>Pearce also had rivals within the AME church and among the leaders of the black Baptist Church in Florida. Many of the latter had quickly established independence with their congregations after the war from the white-dominated <a href="/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Baptist Church">Southern Baptist Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vineyard_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vineyard-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_H._Pearce&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African-American_officeholders_during_and_following_the_Reconstruction_era" title="African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era">African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era</a></li></ul> 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Louisiana State University Press. p. 168. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780807120828" title="Special:BookSources/9780807120828"><bdi>9780807120828</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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