1928–2014
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Boston King
Biography
United States
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Biography
Boston King (c. 1760–1802) was an American slave and Black Loyalist, who gained freedom from the British and settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. He later immigrated to Sierra Leone, where he helped find Freetown and became the first Methodist missionary to African indigenous people.
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