James Page (minister)

Enslaved people were explicitly taught it was God's will for them, while on earth, to suffer, to labor ceaselessly and obey their masters, for an eternal reward in Heaven.

The Reverend Page, at least outwardly, subscribed to this teaching and acknowledged Blacks as inferior and subservient to whites.

[citation needed] Reverend Page, however, cannot be judged by modern standards, and must be viewed in the context of his time.

In 1870 he ran unsuccessfully for State Senate, but returned to public office in 1872 when Governor Ossian Hart appointed him as Leon County's Justice of the Peace.

His Great Floridian plaque is located at the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, 3945 Museum Drive, Tallahassee.