Samuel Crowther
Biographic Data
| ID | 3753658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Crowther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Crowther |
| SIGNATURE | CROWTHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Henry Ford of My Life and Work, Bayside, Long Island, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1855 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers
Captured by slavers as a boy, freed by the Royal Navy, and raised at a mission, Samuel Crowther in 1864 became the first African to be ordained as an Anglican bishop. As a priest, he accompanied the Scottish merchant MacGregor Laird on his expedition to West Africa in 1854, and celebrated Sunday services in a variety of bizarre locations and perilous conditions. This 1855 book is Crowther's detailed record of his journey aboard the steamboat Plei…
The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger
This 1859 publication contains the journals kept by Samuel Crowther (who in 1864 became the first African bishop of the Anglican church) and John Christopher Taylor during their respective missions to the banks of the Niger in 1857 and 1858. Crowther, a rescued slave educated at the Anglican mission in Sierra Leone, and Taylor, another Sierra Leonean, travelled on a trade expedition endorsed by the British government. Taylor disembarked at Onitsh…
Why Quit Our Own
Why Quit Our Own. By George N. Peek with Samuel Crowther. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1936. 353 pp. 50¢.) Get access John D. Hicks John D. Hicks University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 24, Issue 1, June 1937, Pages 131–132, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891397 Published: 01 June 1937
The Future of the Small Corporation
The Romance and Rise of the American Tropics
Journal of an expedition up the Niger and Tshadda rivers undertaken by Macgregor Laird in connection with the British Government in 1854
Spelt Hamarrua in Mr. Koelle's map.t Ibo or Aboh, the chief to'vvn of the Ibo Tribe, situated on the upper border of the Delta of the Niger.* The Rev. E.Jones, with three natives of the Ibo Tribe in Sierra Leone, attempted to reach the Ibo country in April, 1853, but found it unsafe to ascend the Niger without a steamer.
Journal of an expedition up the Niger and Tshadda rivers undertaken by Macgregor Laird in connection with the British Government in 1854
Spelt Hamarrua in Mr. Koelle's map.t Ibo or Aboh, the chief to'vvn of the Ibo Tribe, situated on the upper border of the Delta of the Niger.* The Rev. E.Jones, with three natives of the Ibo Tribe in Sierra Leone, attempted to reach the Ibo country in April, 1853, but found it unsafe to ascend the Niger without a steamer.
The Romance and Rise of the American Tropics
The Future of the Small Corporation
Why Quit Our Own
Why Quit Our Own. By George N. Peek with Samuel Crowther. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1936. 353 pp. 50¢.) Get access John D. Hicks John D. Hicks University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 24, Issue 1, June 1937, Pages 131–132, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891397 Published: 01 June 1937
Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers
Captured by slavers as a boy, freed by the Royal Navy, and raised at a mission, Samuel Crowther in 1864 became the first African to be ordained as an Anglican bishop. As a priest, he accompanied the Scottish merchant MacGregor Laird on his expedition to West Africa in 1854, and celebrated Sunday services in a variety of bizarre locations and perilous conditions. This 1855 book is Crowther's detailed record of his journey aboard the steamboat Plei…
The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger
This 1859 publication contains the journals kept by Samuel Crowther (who in 1864 became the first African bishop of the Anglican church) and John Christopher Taylor during their respective missions to the banks of the Niger in 1857 and 1858. Crowther, a rescued slave educated at the Anglican mission in Sierra Leone, and Taylor, another Sierra Leonean, travelled on a trade expedition endorsed by the British government. Taylor disembarked at Onitsh…
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