George Liele (Q491085)
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HC-PER-34547
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George Liele
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Slave
Missionary
Enslaved. Free before 13th Amendment. The first regularly ordained African American Baptist minister in the U.S., Liele fought during the Revolutionary War on behalf of the British and was transported to Jamaica, where he established the first Baptist church in Jamaica and helped spread Afro-Christianity .