David George (Baptist)
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David George (Baptist)
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David George was an African-American Baptist preacher and a Black Loyalist from the American South who escaped to British lines in Savannah, Georgia; later he accepted transport to Nova Scotia and land there. He eventually resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone where he would eventually die.
With other enslaved people, George founded the Silver Bluff Baptist Church in South Carolina in 1775, the first black congregation in the present-day United States. He was later affiliated with the First Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_George_(Baptist)
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2007-11-17T15:53:57Z
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2024-09-09T21:35:51Z
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