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Richard Henry Boyd (March 15, 1843 – August 22, 1922), commonly known as the Rev. Dr. R. H. Boyd, was an African-American minister and businessman who was the founder and head of the National Baptist Publishing Board and a founder of the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. ==Early life== Boyd was born into slavery at the B. A. Gray plantation in Noxubee County, Mississippi, on March 15, 1843. He was one of ten children of his mother, Indiana Dixon.〔〔〔In the 1901 book ''(Sermons, addresses and reminiscences and important correspondence, with a picture gallery of eminent ministers and scholars )'', E. C. Morris reported Boyd's birthplace as "Winton County, Mississippi" (possibly a mistaken rendering of Winston County) and his birthdate as only "the month of March."〕 He was originally named Dick Gray, having been given the surname of his slave master.〔Nolan Thompson, (Boyd, Richard Henry ), in Handbook of Texas Online〕 〔Lois C. McDougald, (Richard Henry Boyd ), in ''A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History'', 1995; retrieved from Tennessee State University website, August 8, 2009〕 As a child, he moved twice with his master's household, to Lowndes County, Mississippi in 1848, and to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana in 1853.〔Joe Early, Jr., (Richard Henry Boyd: Shaper of Black Baptist Identity ), ''Baptist History and Heritage'', Summer-Fall, 2007〕 In 1859 he was sold to Benoni W. Gray, who took him to a cotton plantation near Brenham in Washington County, Texas. During the American Civil War, he served Gray as a bodyservant in the Confederate Army. After Gray and his two eldest sons were killed and a third son was badly wounded in fighting near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Boyd returned to Texas with the surviving son. In Texas, he took over management of the Gray plantation, successfully producing and selling cotton. Following emancipation, he also worked as a cowboy and in a sawmill. In 1867, he changed his name to Richard Henry Boyd; Richard ("Dick") had been his grandfather's first name, but there is no record of the reasons for his choice of his new middle name and surname. 〔〔 After emancipation, Boyd, who did not learn the alphabet until age 22, began a process of self-education. He used ''Webster's Blue-Backed Speller'' and ''McGuffey's First Reader'' as texts and hired a white girl to teach him. In about 1869 or 1870 he enrolled in Bishop College in Marshall, Texas, an American Baptist Home Mission Society school for the education of freed slaves. He attended Bishop for two years, but did not graduate.〔〔 Later in life he received honorary doctoral degrees from Guadalupe College and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical State College.〔 In 1868, Boyd married Laura Thomas, who died less than a year later. In 1871 he married Harriett Albertine Moore.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「R. H. Boyd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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