Talk:Daniel Coker

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Tentative Outline[edit]

I. 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]

  1. ^ 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= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Frank, Andrew K. (2009). Early Republic: People and Perspectives. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-59884-020-9.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Simpson, Matthew (1878). Cyclopedia of Methodism: Embracing Sketches of Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition (Google eBook). Everts & Stewart, 1027 pages
  6. ^ 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]

1794-1850[edit]

  • "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[edit]

A 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[edit]

Source: Understanding Slavery

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