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Adoniram Judson was not the first American Missionary.Christianity Today and other Christian resources clearly document that the 1st foreign missionaries from American were ex-slaves.

1782 - George Liele, a former pastor & ex-slave, of First African Baptist Church Savannah, Georgia, with four other former American slaves,formed the First African Baptist Church of Kingston. In ten years the church grew to over 500 members. George Liele is considered to be the first American missionary.

1782 - David George, of the Silver Bluff, South Carolina Baptist Church was the first black Baptist church in America. David traveled to Nova Scotia (Canada) and ministered to blacks in exile there.

1782 - Brother Amos, a member of the Savannah, Georgia church sailed for the Bahamas and planted a church in New Providence that grew to 850 members by 1812.

1783 - Moses Baker and George Gibbons, are both former slaves, who left America to become missionaries in the West Indies.

1790 - Prince Williams, a freed slave from South Carolina, went to Nassau, Bahamas where he started the Bethel Meeting House.

1792 - David George, also traveled with 12,000 black settlers to Sierra Leone, West Africa.

1801 - Prince Williams and other blacks organized the Society of Anabaptists. Subsequently, 164 Baptist churches were planted in the Bahamas.

Also, Fuller Seminary, now the largest seminary in the world, has recently found that the largest church growth in in the history of the church since the ascension of Christ was after the civil war. 40,000 African American Churches were planted in the U.S. in little over a generation.

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