 He met Martin R. Delany and Professor Campbell of the Institute for Colored Youth in London, and together the group founded the African Aid Society.He remained in Great Britain during the American Civil War (1861-1865).Back in the United States he attached himself to the Freedmen's Bureau, and in 1866 was appointed editor of the secular department of "Zion's Standard and Weekly Review", a New York City Paper owned by the AME Zion church edited by Singleton T. Jones.