By quickly organizing missionary support of freedmen in the South after the Civil War, Payne gained 250,000 new members for the AME Church during the East Coast to Florida and west to Texas.
By quickly organizing missionary support of freedmen in the South after the Civil War, Payne gained 250,000 new members for the AME Church during the Reconstruction era. He and his missionaries founded AME congregations in the South down the East Coast to Florida and west to Texas.