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Title:Samuel Crowther, the slave boy of the Niger
Author:Page, J.ISNI
Year:189*
Pages:191
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Pickering & Inglis
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:missionary history
biographies (form)
About person:Samuel Ajayi Crowther (ca 1806-1891)ISNI
Abstract:The story of Samuel Crowther, the first native bishop in Africa. He was a Yoruba, who at the age of 12 was captured and become a slave (1821). Having been freed from a Portuguese slave-ship by British warships, he was brought to Freetown and placed under the care of the Church Missionary Society. He was conversed and became a teacher in Freetown, and in 1841 was appointed to accompany a Government expedition exploring the Niger, with a view to the C.M.S. starting missionary work there.