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Tentative Outline
editI. Lede
II. Early life
- a. Mother white, father black.
- b. White brother would not go to school without him.
- c. Escaped from Baltimore to New York to acquire his freedom.
- d. Francis Asbury
III. Travel to Africa
- On the Elizabeth
- Organized first foreign congregation of African Methodist Episcopal church while in transit across Atlantic
IV. Life in Africa
VI. Writings (Journal, Dialogue)
VII. References
VIII. See Also
IX. External Links
Chronology for Daniel Coker
edit- 1780
- Born[1]
- 1800
- Organized the Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church[2]
- 1802
- Bishop Francis Asbury ordained Coker as a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church[3]
- 1805
- Sits for portrait by Joshua Johnson[citation needed]
- 1810
- Published A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister[1]
- 1815
- December, Quaker businessman Paul Cuffe with his crew and 31 passengers sailed for Sierra Leone.[4]
- 1816
- African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church established.[5]
- 1820
- "The ship Elizabeth sailed from New York on the 6th of February, 1820, carrying out the Rev. Samuel Bacon, principal agent, and John P. Bankson, assistant agent, appointed by the president, with thirty effective labourers and mechanics, their wives and children, to be employed in this work. The special instructions delivered to Mr. Bacon, are not (end of page 48) now in the possession of your agent; but in pusuance of the instruction he received, he proceeded to Sierra Leone, and after obtaining an experienced pilot, and procuring all the information of the coast in his power, he determined to effect a temporary settlement in Sherbro....Daniel Coker, a coloured man, on the death of Mr. Bacon, had become invested with the agency for captured Africans, and had all the authority in his own hands..."[6]
- 1846
- Died[1]
Chronology References
edit- ^ a b c Alexander, Leslie M.; Rucker, Walter C., editors; Lofton, Kathryn E. (2010), "Coker, Daniel", vol. v. 2, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO , LLC, p. 341, ISBN 978-1-85109-764-6 http://books.google.ca/books?id=uivtCqOlpTsC
{{citation}}:|first2=has generic name (help); Check|isbn=value: checksum (help); External link in|chapterurl=|title=(help); Unknown parameter|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Frank, Andrew K. (2009). Early Republic: People and Perspectives. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-59884-020-9.
- ^ Moss, Hilary J. (2009). Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-226-54249-2.
- ^ Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh (1997). The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. p. 98. ISBN 0-312-12860-6.
- ^ Simpson, Matthew (1878). Cyclopedia of Methodism: Embracing Sketches of Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition (Google eBook). Everts & Stewart, 1027 pages
- ^ A view of the present state of the African slave trade (Google eBook), Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. William Brown, printer, 1824, 69 pages
Sources to help develop this article
edit- Portrait of a Gentleman, 1805
- African-American Religious Leaders: A-Z of African Americans, Daniel Coker, pp. 42,43
- Aaseng, Nathan (2003), "Coker, Daniel", African-American Religious Leaders: A-Z of African Americans, New York, NY: Infobase Publishing, p. 42,43
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- Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. (2001). The Origins of African American Literature, 1680–1865. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. p. 393. ISBN 0-8139-2066-3.
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1794-1850
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- The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Documenting the American South (1st ed.). Philadelphia, Penn: African Methodist Connection in the United States. 1817. p. 192.
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- "Sherbro: American Colonization Socity". The Missionary register: containing the principal transactions of the various institutions for propagating the gospel : with the proceedings at large of the Church Missionary Society (Google eBook). London: L.B.Seeley: 338. August 1820. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help)Mr. James Doughen, the only survivor of all the Whites, gave particulars of the tragedy.
Departure of the Settlers from America was stated a p. 132 of our Number for March.
The Colony was to consist of four Americans (Whites), and eighty-two Coloured People-men, women, and children.
Bacon and Bankson, Agents for the American Government in the establishment of the Colony. Dr. Crozer, a Physician, accompanied the Expedition, as Agent from the Colonization Society; and Mr. James Doughen had the appointment of Architect...
Out of Twelve Americans, eleven thus, in this short space of time, breathed out their lives on the shores of Africa!
Of the Coloured People, fifteen died. Of the survivors, Mr. Daniel Coker, a Mulatto, who accompanied the Colony as a free emigrant, took charge; having been appointed by Dr. Crozer, in the view of his own decease, Deputy Agent for the Society. - A history of colonization on the western coast of Africa, (Google eBook), Archibald Alexander, W.S. Martien, 1846 - 603 pages
The African Methodist Espiscopal church
editA Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in the secular culture.
Joshua Johnson's Portrait of a Gentleman, 1805, Sitter believed to be Daniel Coker
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