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Liele, George, approximately 1750-approximately 1825 (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Liele, George, approximately 1750-approximately 1825
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  • Earlier heading: Liele, George, ca. 1750-ca. 1825

Gayle, C. George Liele, pioneer missionary to Jamaica, 1982?: t.p. (George Liele) p. 6 (b. about 1750 in Virginia) p. 32 (death date given variously as 1825 and 1828)

African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Liele, George; slave, baptist clergyperson, missionary; born c.1750 in Virginia, United States; attended a local Baptist church; went as an indentured servant with Kirkland to Kingston, Jamaica (1782); received a certificate of freedom and began to preach in a small house in Kingston (1784); charged with “seditious preaching” and was thrown into prison; founder of the First Baptist church in Jamaica; died c.1828 probably, Kingston, Jamaica)

Individual was a slave.

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