Abraham Lincoln DeMond (June 6, 1867 – January 19, 1936) was an American minister and advocate for African-American emancipation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
On January 1, 1900, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, he gave a speech, The Negro Element in American Life, which was his only published work.
After graduating from Howard University Seminary, he was called to pastorates in New Orleans, Charleston, South Carolina, Montgomery, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee.
he said that the Emancipation Proclamation enabled African Americans to join in loyal patriotism, and he lauds the participation of black soldiers in the Spanish–American War.
He pays tribute to such antislavery figures as Douglass, Garnet, Garrison, Phillips, Beecher, Stowe, Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, and Sumner for voicing a desire for freedom that informed the re-fashioning of the United States.
DeMond describes the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation as: "two great patriotic, wise and humane state papers…Both were born in days of doubt and darkness.
[1] What made Buxton unique was that the majority of its five thousand residents were African Americans, a highly unusual racial composition for a state that was over 90 percent white.