The Bishop Who Was Once Cargo
In 1821, slave traders raided a Yoruba village in what is now Nigeria and dragged a twelve-year-old boy named Ajayi onto a Portuguese slave ship....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Acts 10:34-43.
In 1821, slave traders raided a Yoruba village in what is now Nigeria and dragged a twelve-year-old boy named Ajayi onto a Portuguese slave ship. He was cargo — inventoried alongside barrels of palm oil and bundles of ivory. But a British Royal Navy patrol intercepted the vessel off the West African coast, and the boy was set free in Sierra Leone.…
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