United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-19371924Title from TEI header.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.Text scanned (OCR) by Thomas Horan. Images scanned by Thomas Horan. Text encoded by Bethany Ronnberg and Natalia Smith.Text in both HTML and SGML formats.Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.Transcribed from: From slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church : an autobiography / by William H. Heard, D.D., LL.D., one of the Bishops of the A.M.E. Church. Philadelphia : A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928, c1924. 104 p. : ill. ; 17 cm. Includes "The life of William H. Heard, an original poem by Ephraim D. Tyler, Shreveport, Louisiana," (p. 97-104).System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/African Americans--BiographyAfrican American clergy--BiographyAfrican American Methodists--BiographyBishops--United States--BiographySlaves--Georgia--BiographyFreedmen--United States--BiographySlavery--Georgia--History--19th centuryAfrican Americans--ReligionAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops--BiographyAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church--History--19th centuryTyler, Ephraim D. (Ephraim David), b. 1884. Life of William H. HeardFrom slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church : an autobiography / Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-1937Text