Our story begins with a look at the early founders, congregation and community, and an introduction to members of the ZionFreetown@230 team, family genealogists Akindele T.M. Decker and Adrian Q. Labor (African Curator LLC). Follow African Curator online to learn more about how they are making curated historical African experiences more accessible and permanent by working with communities, creatives, museums, public and private entities.
We talk with Anthony Morgan- Founder of Science Everywhere (https://www.anthonymorganscience.com/) about his connections to Zion Wilberforce street, in Freetown. Presented by Natacha Leopold. Written and Produced by Barbara Morgan.
[Image: Portrait of the Reverend Anthony Elliott as published in a pamphlet by his son, John Bucknor Elliott, titled Lady Huntingdon’s Connexion in Sierra Leone: A Narrative of its history and present state published in 1851.]
[Outro music- A Tribe Called Quest -The Space Program (c) 2016 Epic Records]
(00:00) Introduction and the last Christmas in America
(02:35) Meet a member of the team
(04:50) JB Elliott narrative on The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion in Sierra Leone
(06:20) Meet a member of the team
(15:08) Methodist and Baptist leaders and founding congregations
(19:00) Meet a descendant
(20:46) We talk to the current Circuit Superintendent about the initiative
(23:16) Look ahead and outro
This podcast is a fully volunteer effort toward the Zion Freetown 230 initiative.
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