biography
| name: |
Crowther, Samuel (Adjai)
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pronunciation:
[krowther]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1809–91)
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| biography:
| Missionary, born in Ochugu, West Africa. He was carried off as a slave in 1819, and sold more than once, but rescued by a British man-of-war and landed at Sierra Leone in 1822. He was baptized in 1825, and accompanied the Niger expeditions of 1841 and 1854. He was the first African to be ordained by the Church Missionary Society (1842), and was consecrated bishop of the Niger territory in 1864. |
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