Hannah Afala
In 1821, her town, Oshogun, was sacked by Mohammedan slave hunters; her husband was killed; and she, with her three children, were carried away captive. Of these children, Adjai, a boy about twelve years old, was the future Samuel Crowther.
In 1821, her town, Oshogun, was sacked by Mohammedan slave hunters; her husband was killed; and she, with her three children, were carried away captive. Of these children, Adjai, a boy about twelve years old, was the future Samuel Crowther.
Source: The Church Missionary Gleaner, January 1884
He was sold to the Portuguese in the following year, shipped at Eko (now Lagos), rescued by H.M.S. Myrmidon, and taken to Sierra Leone.
Afala had been a slave most of those years, but had been redeemed by her two daughters. She was placed under the instruction of the Rev. H. Townsend...
... and on Feb. 6th, 1848, she was baptized, the first fruit of Abeokuta unto Christ, receiving, as the mother of Samuel, the appropriate name of Hannah.
