…ent, clever and pious.” Freeman attended the Oneida Institute with New York abolitionist Alexander Crummell and began his career as pastor of Abyssinian Congregational Church in Portland, Maine. In 1852, Freeman moved to Brooklyn, where he succeeded James N. Gloucester as pastor at Siloam Presbyterian Church. His tenure there lasted more than thirty years. established a flourishing Sabbath school at the church. In the 1860s, he led the African Ci…