James R. Newby

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James R Newby was a 19th century African American missionary to present-day Nigeria, Cameroon, and Liberia.

The following information is taken from Newby's autobiography: Newby, James R; McHardie, Elizabeth; Allan, Andrew: The Prodigal Continent and Her Prodigal Son and Missionary: Or the Adventures, Conversion, and African Labours of the Rev James R Newby; with Special Chapters on Africa and Its Condition by McHardie & Allan. London, Morgan and Scott, undated

His father:

  • was a slave who was freed because he was on a visit to Pennsylvania with his mistress at the time the Act of Emancipation for the Middle States was passed.
  • became an abolitionist associate of Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, and John Brown
  • was sent to England by some Quakers to get an education
  • was ordained as a Baptist minister in England
  • returned to America and preached among black people, and participated in the Underground Railroad
  • during the gold fever was the first man to preach in San Francisco, where he raised a large congregation, and later likewise in Portland
  • was a "Hyper-Calvinist", "Close Communion Baptist" (see Closed communion and Strict Baptist)

James R Newby:

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  • Autobiography:
Newby, James R; McHardie, Elizabeth; Allan, Andrew: The Prodigal Continent and Her Prodigal Son and Missionary: Or the Adventures, Conversion, and African Labours of the Rev James R Newby; with Special Chapters on Africa and Its Condition by McHardie & Allan. London, Morgan and Scott, undated
  • Autobiography of a fellow-missionary:
Thomas Lewis Johnson: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave,or the Story of My Life in Three Continents