Lott Cary

GPTKB entity

Statements (21)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:American_Colonization_Society
gptkbp:birthDate 1780
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Charles_City_County,_Virginia,_United_States
gptkbp:deathDate 1828
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Monrovia,_Liberia
gptkbp:emigratedTo gptkb:Liberia
gptkbp:formerStatus slave trade
gptkbp:freedStatus freedman
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Lott Cary
gptkbp:knownFor first African American missionary to Africa
founding member of the colony of Liberia
gptkbp:legacy Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention named in his honor
gptkbp:notableEvent helped found Providence Baptist Church in Monrovia
helped establish the first Christian mission in Liberia
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:missionary
gptkb:priest
colonist
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Baptist
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Back_to_Africa_movement
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6