John Christopher Taylor was a contemporary of Samuel Ajayi Crowther. He was born around the year 1815 in Sierra Leone of Igbo parents (an Isuama father and an Arochukwu mother), who had earlier been sold into slavery from the Igbo country of present Nigeria, but were later rescued and settled with other freed slaves in Sierra Leone. He studied at the Charlotte primary school and at Fourah Bay College, Freetown.
1860–1880
John Christopher Taylor
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John Christopher Taylor was born around 1815 in Sierra Leone to Igbo parents who had been enslaved from present-day Nigeria and later resettled as freed slaves in Sierra Leone. He was educated at Charlotte Primary School and Fourah Bay College, Freetown, and was a contemporary of Samuel Ajayi Crowther.
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