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Published A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister[1]
1815
December, Quaker businessman Paul Cuffe with his crew and 31 passengers sailed for Sierra Leone.[4]
1816
African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church established.[5]
1820
"The ship Elizabeth sailed from New York on the 6th of February, 1820, carrying out the Rev. Samuel Bacon, principal agent, and John P. Bankson, assistant agent, appointed by the president, with thirty effective labourers and mechanics, their wives and children, to be employed in this work. The special instructions delivered to Mr. Bacon, are not (end of page 48) now in the possession of your agent; but in pusuance of the instruction he received, he proceeded to Sierra Leone, and after obtaining an experienced pilot, and procuring all the information of the coast in his power, he determined to effect a temporary settlement in Sherbro....Daniel Coker, a coloured man, on the death of Mr. Bacon, had become invested with the agency for captured Africans, and had all the authority in his own hands..."[6]
"Sherbro: American Colonization Socity". The Missionary register: containing the principal transactions of the various institutions for propagating the gospel : with the proceedings at large of the Church Missionary Society (Google eBook). London: L.B.Seeley: 338. August 1820. Retrieved 2012-05-16. {{
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Mr. James Doughen, the only survivor of all the Whites, gave particulars of the tragedy.
Departure of the Settlers from America was stated a p. 132 of our Number for March.
The Colony was to consist of four Americans (Whites), and eighty-two Coloured People-men, women, and children.
Bacon and Bankson, Agents for the American Government in the establishment of the Colony. Dr. Crozer, a Physician, accompanied the Expedition, as Agent from the Colonization Society; and Mr. James Doughen had the appointment of Architect...
Out of Twelve Americans, eleven thus, in this short space of time, breathed out their lives on the shores of Africa!
Of the Coloured People, fifteen died. Of the survivors, Mr. Daniel Coker, a Mulatto, who accompanied the Colony as a free emigrant, took charge; having been appointed by Dr. Crozer, in the view of his own decease, Deputy Agent for the Society.
A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in the secular culture.
Joshua Johnson's Portrait of a Gentleman, 1805, Sitter believed to be Daniel Coker