Lott Cary, the colonizing missionary
By: Fisher, Miles Mark, 1899-
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African American missionaries; Biography; African American Baptists; Clergy; Missions; Baptists; African Americans; Colonization; Richmond African Baptist Mission Society
Other titles: Journal of Negro history.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: In this 1922 article for the Journal of Negro History, Fisher writes of Lott Cary (1780-1828), the first American Baptist missionary in Africa. Beginning with a description of Cary's early life, and continuing with the difficulties he overcame to start his mission, Fisher devotes much of the article to documenting Cary's struggles in Africa.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

Text scanned (OCR) by Robin Roenker. Images scanned by Robin Roenker. Text encoded by Fiona Mills and Jill Kuhn.

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Transcribed from: Lott Cary, the colonizing missionary / Miles Mark Fisher. p. 380-418. Caption title. This text was originally published in: The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 7, [no. 4, October] 1922.

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