Champion was a freedman who lived in the vicinity of Salem. He settled in the area sometime about 1783 and began working as a stonebreaker. The Aufseher Collegium noted his usefulness to the community as a builder. 

He built his own home near the mouth of the Brushy Fork where he could find an abundance of material. Champion was one of several providers of stone to the masons in Salem and the surrounding area in the 1780s.

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ENSLAVED AND FREE MEN LABOR - MORAVIAN CHURCH, SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA

The Moravians of the Wachovia Tract had a complex relationship with slavery. In the eighteenth century, white Moravians did not see a conflict between owning and hiring enslaved Africans and African Americans while at the same time worshipping beside them as spiritual equals.

By the early nineteenth century, the chattel slavery and racial segregation found across the American South was also entrenched in Salem.

Enslaved workers were originally brought to Salem to help the Moravians in their initial efforts to construct the vital buildings in the town. The Moravians justified this decision because they were crucially short on labor during this time.

By 1800 the Moravians in North Carolina owned approximately seventy enslaved workers, about a tenth of the total workforce in Wachovia.

While many of those individuals worked on farms in Bethania and Friedberg, it was not uncommon for an enslaved African or African American man to be in Salem working on one of the many buildings being constructed. Most of these men were laborers, but some possessed skills in the building trades. By 1860, African Americans, both enslaved and free, comprised 22 percent the total population in the Salem District.

Source: The Enslaved And Free Men Who Built Salem: A Biographical Look /Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts