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¡827 —The Anglican Church Missionary Society estab­
lished a settlement fo r freed slaves at Erere Town,
(Mombasa) Kenya.
¡842 —Samuel Johnson Prescod was the lirst Black
Barbadian in the Assembly.
Mid-1800s — David Livingston, aided by Tippu Tip and
Chuma (Livingston’s “ man Friday” ), explored the A f­
rican interior and paved the way lo r missionaries to
evangelize the interior around 1878. Bombay, a native
o f Zanzibar, was also instrumental in aiding Stanley,
Cameron, Burton and Speke for the same purpose.
1853-72 — Dr. Alexander Crumwell served as clergyman
and educator in Sierra Leone and Liberia. From 1873
until his death, he was a prolific w riter and speaker
throughout leading cities in the States.
1857 — Bishop Samuel Ajaye Crowther, first Black
bishop o f the Church o f England, founded the Niger
Mission.
!860s-1890s — W orkers from Jamaica and Antigua
formed a small Christian community on the west coast
o f A frica. Missions were formed with mixed success
throughout the area. Others were formed by Catholic
and Protestant orders at a tremendous toll: close to nine
hundred members were lost in about sixty years ot
Christianizing.
Nat Turnar tails his disciples "On to Jerusalem" -
September. 1831.
elect. The Vesey (1822) and Turner (1831) insurrections
inhibited its growth, somewhat, until the "Black laws
were repealed.
1820 — Liberia was founded and supported by the
American Colonization Society for the purpose o f set­
tling " . . .free persons o f color on the African Conti­
nent.”
Rev. Lott Carey was the first American missionary
sent to Liberia after having bought his freedom seven
years earlier.
1860-62 — French C atholic missionaries established
three schools and a technical center in Tanzania.
1861 — Anglican missionaries were the first to prose­
lytize in Malawi.
1868 — The first C hristian mission was founded in
Bagamo, Tanzania by the Holy Ghost Fathers o f Fran-
1821 —AM EZ became a national body with Rev. James
Varick as its first bishop.
France. Others quickly followed to achieve a balance o f
the Catholic and Protestant faiths.
1826-28 —Rev. Carey administered the affairs o f the
Liberian Settlement; first as vice agent, then as adminis­
trator until his death from an explosion.
1820 —The first national convention o f Black men,
organized by Rev. Richard Allen, was held in Philadel­
phia.
1821 — Legislation permitted free "coloreds” in Bar
bados to vote. Nine years later, anyone could be elected
to the House of Assembly.
1834 —Slavery was formally abolished throughout the
British Dominion. The ambitious education program
developed by the Church o f England for the slaves had
founded twenty-one churches and chapels, and 154
schools on Barbados.
Tlppu Tip
¡870 —The first Zulu pastor was ordained by American
m issionaries. Black members o t the M eth od ist
Episcopal C hurch, South, broke away to form the
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