The Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention was a movement in the 1890s by African-American Baptists of the
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA or NBC), is a primarily African American Baptist Christian denomination in the United States. It is headquartered at the Baptist World Ce ...
who wanted to see more missions to Africa. The group eventually separated from the 'Mother Church' in 1897 due to disputes concerning the mission board. They chose to have greater cooperation with the white-dominated
Southern Baptist Convention.
The convention was named for
Lott Carey
Lott Cary (also in records as Lott Carey and Lott Gary) (1780 – November 10, 1828) was an African-American Baptist minister and lay physician who was a missionary leader in the founding of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa in ...
(1780-1828), an African American who was the first American Baptist missionary to Africa. Born into slavery, he bought his freedom while working in
Richmond, Virginia, and later became a Baptist preacher. While serving in the colony in West Africa that developed as
Liberia, founded by the
American Colonization Society
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America until 1837, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the migration of freebor ...
in the early 19th century for the resettlement of
free blacks, he engaged in evangelism and education.
In addition, Carey established the first Baptist church there in 1822. It was named the Providence Baptist Church of Monrovia, the city that became the capital of the country.
See also
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Clinton Caldwell Boone
Clinton Caldwell Boone (9 May 1872 –1939) was an African-American Baptist minister, physician, dentist, and medical missionary who served in the Congo Free State and Liberia. The son of Rev. Lemuel Washington Boone and Charlotte (Chavis) Boon ...
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Eva Roberta Coles Boone
References
External links
Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention* Somerville School, Noida, India
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Somerville School, Greater Noida
Somerville may refer to:
*Somerville College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
Places
*Somerville, Victoria, Australia
* Somerville, Western Australia, a suburb of Kalgoorlie, Australia
* Somerville, New Zealand, a subur ...
, India
Baptist missionary societies
Baptist denominations in North America
Historically African-American Christian denominations
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