He had no rights on earth, he had none in trying to get into the bosom of the founder of Christianity, which the white sinners or saints were bound to respect.
Even the liberty-loving Quakers of Philadelphia were not above the use of the "negro seat" in their meetings.

Somehow they discerned that there was a great gulf separating in this life at least the white from the black believer.

That God had made of one blood all nations of men, St.
Paul had taught, but the American church had with one accord in practice drawn the line at the poor despised colored man.

He was excluded from ecclesiastical equality, for he was different from other men for whom Christ died.

The Bible declared that man was made but a little lower than the angels; the American people in their State and Church supplemented this sentiment by acts which plainly said that the negro was made but a little above the brute creation.
Here are instances of the length to which the prejudice against color carried the churches in those early years of the anti-slavery movement: In 1830, a colored man, through a business transaction with a lessee of one of the pews in Park Street Church, came into possession of it.
Thinking to make the best use of his opportunity to obtain religious instruction for himself and family from this fountain of orthodoxy, the black pew-holder betook him, one Sunday, to "Brimstone Corner." But he was never permitted to repeat the visit.