1864 SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER. June 1, 1864 Letter by First African Bishop, Former Nigerian Slave. Ephemera A Discourse Delivered before the

A Discourse Delivered before the American Baptist Missionary Union by Henry G

A Facsimile of the National Covenant of 1638

but it is otherwise ordered & I leave them willingly

he collected a set of Constitutional Convention autographs

in Miniature

1864 SAMUEL AJAYI CROWTHER. June 1, 1864 Letter by First African Bishop, Former Nigerian Slave. Ephemera A Discourse Delivered before theA wonderfully clean, crisp 2pp ALS by Samuel Ajayi Crowther [1807 1891]. Born in Yorubaland [modern Nigeria], he was taken captive by Muslim slave traders and traded six times before being sold to the Portuguese. As part of the British anti slavery patrol of ships coming to Europe, the ship Samuel was on was intercepted, boarded, and the slaves set free and transported to Sierra Leone. There Crowther became a Christian and began training for the